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Tag: experimental

Exit Stage Left by Bob Gielow
Fiction / Miscellaneous

Exit Stage Left by Bob Gielow

April 11, 2025April 11, 20251

“Person 1: I’ve been thinking about Mom and the prognosis she’s received. Person 2: Yeah, me too. I’m kind of devastated here.” – excerpt from Exit Stage Left by Bob Gielow

The Needle Man by Clint Sabom
Fiction / Miscellaneous

The Needle Man by Clint Sabom

March 17, 2025March 31, 20250

[1291 words] In my worry chamber birds fly east and west but never north and south, as some humans of the frailest forms would have …

“typoem” by Michael Betancourt
Miscellaneous / Poetry

“typoem” by Michael Betancourt

February 19, 2024July 29, 20240

“typoem” by Michael Betancourt: a visual poem made from collaged typographic fragments. #MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“A Wounded Sky” by Andrew Johnston
Fiction

“A Wounded Sky” by Andrew Johnston

March 29, 2021March 23, 20240

The sky’s been running down my walls for the last week, just these weird regal purple trickles of oily space that squirm their way down …

“Little Gem Magnolia” by Paul Rabinowitz
Fiction / Miscellaneous / Poetry

“Little Gem Magnolia” by Paul Rabinowitz

January 15, 2021June 28, 20221

I In an old cafe on Frenchmen Street in The Faubourg Marigny, a ceiling fan churns, throwing dust into the eyes of an old painting …

“The Dog in You” by Omar Hussain
Fiction

“The Dog in You” by Omar Hussain

October 26, 2020February 13, 20223

My self-destruct button pops up. It sits idle with flirt and temptation, just atop my ribs. Throbs with each perfectly pained thump of my heart. …

“One Day” by Rebekah Ricksecker
Fiction

“One Day” by Rebekah Ricksecker

May 20, 2019February 23, 20220

6:47 AM The darkness turns gray; the misty fog rests over the water; the honeysuckle perfumes the air as white petals float on the still …

“In Sartre Ward” by Michael Paul Hogan
Fiction

“In Sartre Ward” by Michael Paul Hogan

September 19, 2016September 1, 20200

  To be man means to reach toward being God. Or, if you prefer, man fundamentally is the desire to be God.        Jean-Paul Sartre   …

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