By Paul Fauteux As a less-than-stellar youth I googled "shaving pubic hair" and found a man who said "I want to shave my pubic hair" and the forum doctor said…
By Daniel W. Thompson I told them birds to shut it up. I said, you can’t be hawking and squawking all day like that. People like me, we live out here…
By Alina Stefanescu the woman is a blend a detail-buster harem moving with duster memory being flummoxed feeling I’m watching the dishes to catch a close-up but the problem with non-…
By Elizabeth Mercurio she sighs when I take her out the same dumb doll who bleeds for me she has one blue eye the other is a hole nothing is…
By Tantra Bensko When weird things happen to me, sometimes I wonder. Is it because my Palatine German ancestors kept a rose bush in their yard? When I am followed,…
By Dolan Morgan I open the deer with a knife and put my bags inside. It’s dusk in the cul-de-sac. Mothers call their children back for dinner. Kitty mews and…
By Arielle Lipset I know I exist. Yours are the eyes carving my dust into small piles of nothing You and I sprinkle our bones into the wind, dissolve under…
By Cliff Lynn oedipus I could never be sure but I grew up with an idea that the woman who raised me wasn't my biological mother I always wondered whether she…
By Robert James Russell When I was a girl my mom would tell me stories about her people. They came from the Ozarks, she’d say, hearty folk who worked as tradesmen…
By Fikret Pajalic The hand-written sign taped to the sliding doors of my local supermarket said Night-filler Wanted – Apply Within. I was transfixed by the name. A job that fills…
By Travis Macdonald He melts through time like a statue. & he breaks at the bloody riddle with his boomerang decoder. forget the howling mirror which he channels to a…
by Samantha Sweigert I named the light switches. Said goodnight to little things. (Green Street) We didn't talk about the garage until I was old enough. (Bayberry Drive) Wood paneled walls…