D.A. Donaldson Water’s Edge Civility suffocates the water’s edge where we once ran laughing at the shallow fish, now mesmerized by tattered skeletons of crayfish armor, floating like a funeral. D.A. Donaldson maintains a flash-fiction blog whilst laboring as a clerk in a public library.
Read MoreAddie Eliades Umbrella Lullaby Sometimes the rain is soft enough to count to sleep. Addie Eliades is an associative slowpoke from Virginia.
Read MoreRomana Iorga The Pond Writing is like fishing in that silt-choked pond behind your grandfather’s farm, where you knew you were unlikely to catch anything, since there were no fish left, only frogs, and maybe the occasional cottonmouth, which wasn’t something you hoped to reel in, and yet, here you go again, stubbornly, religiously even, […]
Read MoreDennis Spiker On the Island of Naxos We were on that scooter exploring the island of Naxos when we invaded a silent village, stopped to watch a funeral procession, saw the Beloved carried aloft on a board, a borrowed door, into the next fawn world. Dennis Spiker is a frustrated novelist who often turns to poetry […]
Read Moredeb y felio Aquarius After years of flushing unused narcotics, and dumping weapons of mean destruction into the nearest bodies of water, schools of fish have become gangs, and no other marine life seems to care. deb y felio writes and lives one sentence at a time – sometimes simple and sometimes complex.
Read MoreCarol Francis Reunion at Ellis Island, 1903 Her skin still stinging from the rough scrub, tiny Anna, tethered in line to her mother, five sisters, and one brother, caught in her own the bright blue eyes behind the glass and knew her father, and safety (though she had no word for it), for the first […]
Read MoreAdam Nagy The Glitch We were younger and better when they killed the lights and you were lost in the static of the formless and the pure. Adam Nagy authored two novellas that can be found on Amazon and is an aspiring screenwriter.
Read MoreJ. R. Solonche On a Bee The best poem ever written on a bee is by Emily Dickinson, so why are you wasting your time reading this one? J. R. Solonche has been publishing in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s and is the author of six books of poetry.
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