Gossip Writer – by Laurie Mueller
Of course, there was gossip that I couldn’t put in my column. Like the fact that Monica went to Mexico every winter for 3 months with her lover.
Read More Gossip Writer – by Laurie MuellerOf course, there was gossip that I couldn’t put in my column. Like the fact that Monica went to Mexico every winter for 3 months with her lover.
Read More Gossip Writer – by Laurie MuellerSome of the words died in the water.
I say died, but everyone knows my mother drowned them herself; couldn’t stand the way they made my father look at whiter women.
Read More Autopsy of A Tongue – by Murgatroyd MonaghanI sat in my grade 10 classes and daydreamed about him all day. I pictured us holding hands in school, going to the movies, and having our first kiss.
Read More The Hottie and the Cringe – by Narges Jalali-Kushki This man-made land mass
surrounds him cupped in the ocean’s
loch, lingering all over
in the throat of the dead zone
…their headless bodies and summer finery
browning and drooping
but persisting as they lean
against one another
When I log in to Steam, it reminds me—
it’s been five years since you were last online.
Frozen crown, low fields in the distance
seeded in winter sleep.
ice was to touch / what loss is to the mind /
Read More The unique properties of ice and related crystals – Charlotte Stokes Meyer zu NatrupSoon I will have that graceful nose and those angular cheekbones, the upturned eyelids and full lips.
Read More The Dopple Gang – by Lindsey Harrington“Real hair,” my wife says, when she brings the doll home. “I saved it from his last haircut.”
Read More A Boy Like Bobby – by Finnian Burnett