Showing results for 2018
Glitter Spill and Devil Bird
Britton Andrews
It was supposed to be
a joyous thing
Sleepovers
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
She tore off pieces and kept them in her mouth.
Illuminated
Michelle Chikaonda
It happened at a small party I’d planned at a nightclub in the meatpacking district.
Orthodontics
Troy James Weaver
He was taking swigs out of a bottle of Listerine.
Twenty Plays
Brittany Ackerman
1. My ex-boyfriend got engaged to a girl less than a year after he broke up with me. We had dinner with her once. She was a family friend. She wore hoop earrings and looked like a worst-case scenario Mila Kunis. I hated her but I didn't know why yet.
In The Aftermath
William A. Greenfield
Via some prophecy, my son has
reached one half my chronological
age. And there are so many things
he can tell me: when The Macho Man
first claimed the heavyweight belt,
the year I bought him
Five Stories
Robert Vaughan
Every time they go-cart raced, she beat the living crap out of him.
Holy Water
Nathan Thomas
Although I guess it really started on Saturday morning.
A Good And Simple Life
Oliver Zarandi
The Boy was born poor and continued to be poor.
The Ass is a Hole Where The Light Gets In
Jon Lindsey
This is a meaningful story about the intestinal parasite I picked up while living in Salt Lake City, in Ted Bundy’s house.
A Story To Spit On
Sebastian Castillo
A bald eagle was shot directly above my head, mid-flight, and its feathers rested gently on my scalp for the rest of geological time.
Chain Restaurants, Reviewed by Poems: Wendy’s
Danny Caine
On the way to T’s childhood Wendy’s I tell her
about mine, a Fancy Wendy’s, with a salad bar,
rooms, tin ceilings or something. I’ve been too afraid
to go back: no person ever steps into the same
All Our Italian Friends Are Dead
Fawzy Zablah
I was so broke I went to see my mother.
Merchandiser
Derick Dupre
Esther rises and pulls the cord and moves to the front of the bus, whereupon it brakes and kneels.
To The Princesses I've Broken
Chelsea Sheneman
From The Happiest Place On Earth
The Cure.
Lauren Grabowski
It took a month of working together for Luke to start talking to me.
spell for electron microscopes
Maya Jewell Zeller
spell for electron microscopes/ for silicate minerals & landfills
if my friends say you are a cell tower & I am a bird
if when I say I dream of archaeology what I mean is you
Touching Strangers
Tamara Adelman
The door is open, I said, just come in.
Driving Through Colorado, Listening to the Radio, Thinking of My Father Again
Sophie Klahr
Well look, the radio says ...
After the Call about My Dad’s House Burning Down
Guy Choate
Liz and I sit up with a start.
My Mother Left Me
Anastasia Selby
An envelope with my name on it, xoxo.
We Get Pregnant
Diana Clarke
We receive phone calls inviting us to the ocean, (a beach day!) but of course we can no longer fit in the sea. We are too big for open waters.
Autopsy
Whitney Lee
We met in the pathology suite ––me the medical student––you the corpse.
Automatic For The People
Andrew M. Howard
I’ve bought more used Automatic for the People CDs than I can count.