Neil Kennedy Sloshing and grumbling like an upset stomach, the children are walking to school again. Neil Kennedy studies information science but likes information a lot more than he likes science.
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Poems
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Deonte Osayande “While checking papers I thought of”
Deonte Osayande While checking papers I thought of immigrants await deportation from their loved ones, while we argue over who has better chicken sandwiches, or which rainforest burns the brightest from space and the rich use this fire to keep themselves warm and away from what others are strong enough to face. Deonte Osayande is […]
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Deonte Osayande “Why I Went Back to Short Hair”
Deonte Osayande Why I Went Back to Short Hair My hair grew while mourning, in my skull, sometimes still haunted by it, but the thing about depression, you never get over the doubts, that you shouldn’t be here you just don’t listen to them anymore. Deonte Osayande is a writer from Detroit, who doesn’t remember […]
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Deonte Osayande “Our Gods are Women and They’re Stealing Them”
Deonte Osayande Our Gods are Women and They’re Stealing Them Night, silent but girls, kids become rainforest, endangered species and nobody bothers blinking over their bodies, cast aside like garbage in the ocean. Deonte Osayande is a writer from Detroit, who doesn’t remember how long you’re supposed to wait between submissions. https://www.amazon.com/Deonte-Osayande/s?k=Deonte+Osayande
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Pushcart Nominee 2019: Scott Hughes “Perma-Ring”
Pushcart Nominee 2019 Scott Hughes Perma-Ring People told me that after you wear your wedding band long enough, there would be a permanent indentation on your finger, but what they didn’t tell me, what they may not have even known, is once you leave the ring off how soon your skin forgets. Keep reading, and […]
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Pushcart Nominee 2019: Ian Willey “The End”
Pushcart Nominee 2019 Ian Willey The End If the sun were suddenly to explode we’d have eight minutes and twenty seconds before the shockwave reached earth to annihilate everything, meaning there wouldn’t be enough time to listen to “The End” by The Doors, though you could play R.E.M.’s “It’s the End of the World as […]
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Pushcart Nominee 2019: Steve Klepetar “On the Platform”
Pushcart Nominee 2019 Steve Klepetar On the Platform The train was late, so we stood on the platform staring down the track into darkness, and my father said “Don’t wish your life away,” said it with a slight smile, a little joke, a little wisdom I could have for free as I walked down to […]
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Pushcart Nominee 2019: Howie Good “The Last Voyage”
Pushcart Nominee 2019 Howie Good The Last Voyage Our 93-year-old dad, without his hearing aids or even his three-pronged cane, still managed somehow to give everyone the slip, sneaking off to Monte Carlo Night down in the cellar of a dream factory, where he coolly turned over his hole card and won $400, after which […]
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