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Dead Cake by Marlena Eva
Poetry

Dead Cake by Marlena Eva

September 27, 2024September 27, 20240

“Dead Cake”, poetry by Marlena Eva #TheMetaworker

“Dinner or Parasite?” by David A. Goodrum
Art

“Dinner or Parasite?” by David A. Goodrum

August 14, 2023July 29, 20240

Photo by David A. Goodrum
#TheMetaworker #MetaworkerMonday

“Last Meal” by Jason Brightwell
Poetry

“Last Meal” by Jason Brightwell

December 3, 2022December 3, 20220

Tomorrow is too late. I’ve been listeningto the ground lick its lips, laying plans to closeon your heart. To beat the earth, brown batter, to bake …

Three Microfictions by Ashley McCurry
Fiction / Micro

Three Microfictions by Ashley McCurry

September 5, 2022September 9, 20220

My Friends and I Started Having Premonitions About Future Lovers Sonia dreamt of being sawed in half by a mustached magician, rugged steel grinding rosewood …

“Swamy” by Ranjit Kulkarni
Fiction

“Swamy” by Ranjit Kulkarni

June 24, 2022July 10, 20220

I sometimes wonder if people are crazy or from some other planet. But I am not complaining. Why should I? Not at all. After all, …

“Cherry” by Stephen Kingsnorth
Poetry

“Cherry” by Stephen Kingsnorth

January 7, 2022January 2, 20221

Why do I keep the best till lastwhen eating cake;quite unlike wine.My mindful taste budsfind their pace, start marksfrom first eye-captured plate,declared by sharp seep …

“Summit Negotiations” by Stephen Kingsnorth
Poetry

“Summit Negotiations” by Stephen Kingsnorth

December 3, 2021February 23, 20221

At the cake bazaar,annual in the village hall –Mrs Baker’s acid voice –I stall to scan those sweetmeat plates. The granulated cog biscuits,as if surfaced …

“Brutal Roux” by Elyse Jancosko
Poetry

“Brutal Roux” by Elyse Jancosko

October 22, 2021October 17, 20210

Becca add morebutter Becca. That’s no way tomake a roux. Don’t just measure on a whim.Your flour and fat. Or fluid and fault.Meat drippings, maybe. …

“Picnic” by Matt Dennison
Poetry

“Picnic” by Matt Dennison

September 10, 2021September 5, 20210

Jane floats her tablecloth across the floor,sets out fruit, bread, wine, says: Here, look closely. See the red so forcefullywoven into the curtain? Mother’s blood. Scattered like …

“The Dinner Party” by Alexa Hailey
Fiction

“The Dinner Party” by Alexa Hailey

October 12, 2020March 23, 20241

We arrived right on time, although we had debated that. Isn’t fashionably late, well, fashionable? In the end, though, we were on time. Which was …

“Taco Dreams” by William Torphy
Fiction

“Taco Dreams” by William Torphy

February 17, 2020February 24, 20200

    Peg had made good on her resolution to leave West Virginia, and here he was in San Francisco, seasonless though it was Spring, sleeping on …

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