So many times, she swam in dark places, afraid to dive in an inconsistent world. Pained by love, she removed all traces, atonement was given to a frightened girl. She floated above a surface of calories, undercurrents of self-destructive… Read More ›
Starving Artist
Truth Stone by Brenda-Lee Ranta
a coveted moonstone secreted by her corseted bosom, lay against her heart, her long tendrils fell upon ivory shoulders, her onyx eyes – challenging. pulling golden sabre from it’s sheath making ready to spar for a sacred stone. the other,… Read More ›
Shhh! I’m Catching a Buzz! by Peter V. Dugan
I watched the rabbit slip through the gate into the private garden of my neighbor’s prized pot plants. My neighbor had complained that rabbits must be getting in and feasting on his fabulous foliage. I stealthily approached hoping… Read More ›
Motherly Love by Lynn White
I have spent a lifetime trying to break away, trying to break out, trying to find myself. Always on the edge, always on the outside, not quite a part, of it, not quite a beatnik, or a mod, hippy, or… Read More ›
Musical String Theory by Valormore De Plume
Created to be a living entity, the cosmos erupted as a single sound. To see expansion fueling growth is really quite profound. Newly forming hydrogen produces a string with its own tone. Ancient dust from gigantic distant stars now resides… Read More ›
Disconnected by Jeanette Nel le Roux
delusions are meaningful explanations for those who are searching for the significance of life – a jumble of disconnect faces slipping in succession through cracks in the wall of distant future ruptured minds are drowned and wasted in black nights… Read More ›
Survive – Collaboration
There are times when these dark, weighted emotions become too heavy a load to carry, and I begin to sink back into that abyss from which I crawled. Scraped hands, bruised knees, and bloody knuckles serve as mementos of… Read More ›
Mercy Killing by William Wright, Jr.
I’ve never had the stomach to send this life crashing down all around me, in a fit of distress Eternity pleads, in the dead of night but I’ve never had the heart to return its bitter-cold glare The will is… Read More ›
Victory by Shirley Ann Cooper
He crawls through muddy waters trying to embrace, A life he never wanted to face. The wealth he works so hard to make, Wasn’t at all what he wanted to take. He had a family that needed him so… Read More ›
Black Dog by Steve Lay
Black dog jumping up and down, chasing its tail all around, Keeps playing but it comes with a bite, throw its toy to it, comes with a fight Can’t just leave it at home, so that is free to roam,… Read More ›