by Camille Lewis | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
Heartstring (Merriam Webster)noun nheart· string | \ ˈhärt-ˌstriŋ \ Definition of heartstring1: obsolete: a nerve once believed to sustain the heart2: the deepest emotions or affections —usually used in plural That movie really pulls at your heartstrings. If your...
by maoglone | Sep 7, 2021 | Issue #2, Issues
Allison DeDecker Before becoming a parentI never realizedhow much hurt is causedin trying to prevent it;how guarding against traumacreates its ownhow watchful eyes can blinkto police searchlights aimingto capture and containinstead of protect and servehow easily a...
by Nathalie Lawrence | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
Her coffeecould wake the dead,quite literally.This secret menu was real.The body lay on three tablespushed togetherwhile his father sipped mint teain a corner after hours.The recipe, simple:too many beansdark, oilycrushed by screaming burrswater, too hotin an antique...
by Mark J. Mitchell | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
His notes smell of cognac—dark old woodand finesse. The tip-snifter rests on tophis home spinet. Was a time he wouldfill it with warm, brown liquid, then practice.Now it holds dust and matchbooks. Still, he couldsmell brandy as he plunked black keys. Dark woodstill...
by Jason Melvin | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
gaze beyond the bridgesas the early evening sundips into the tailof the Ohio river two cloud-making smoke stackspuff awaya rippled reflection of it allin the iridescent flowsmell of fried fishwafts upfrom the fast-food jointacross the parking lotmixes inwith the...
by Michael Igoe | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
Like the candles lit,by strangers at Easterin homemade gowns.Once they’re secluded, they point their fingersat their recent culprit.That same daythey taught howto steal the Mona Lisa. Michael Igoe, instructor at Boston University’s Psych Rehab Center. City...
by Tom Zimmerman | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
Election Night 2020I’ve used these thousand poems as a record:not the...
by Paris Jessie | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
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by Paxton Grey | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
Paxton Grey (he/they) is a non-binary, neurodivergent software developer living in Virginia. He has a degree in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University. They can be found on twitter @PaxWrites.
by Paxton Grey | Jun 24, 2021 | Issue #1, Issues
you know asphalt tastes like death:gritty between your teeth. you loseyourself to the icy street. drunk shoeless, you liethere waiting for an inattentive truckto do what you couldn’t. but it’s 3amin the suburbs and you can’t helpbut think you botched it...
