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ARIA, ASIDE BY DAVID BONTUMASI

Posted by admin | Jun 17, 2016 | Fiction | 3 |

I run my fingers along the coarse green curtains in my bedroom window and look down at the silent form of our next door neighbor as she shuffles in the soft glow of her kitchen light.

GIRLS NEVER FORGET BY FERRIS JONES

Posted by admin | Sep 11, 2017 | Poetry | 0 |

And she stood up, left her den to crawl back to herself to remember when. Moments of promised love past speak soft and fine tales of love, that still wails.

THE FLOWERS MAY GROW BY DARREN C. DEMAREE

Posted by admin | Jul 17, 2017 | Poetry | 0 |

i told my son the flowers may grow all around you but that doesn’t mean you’re part of a garden so what so what so what isn’t it all so lovely walk walk walk like you know the difference between the bloom and the crop consume...

AUTHORITY OF STARS BY DAVID ANTHONY SAM

Posted by admin | Apr 22, 2017 | Poetry | 0 |

Can you read between
the nights so you may taste
what I have tasted?

SOLVING POE’S MURDER BY EDWARD FRANCISCO

Posted by admin | Dec 13, 2016 | Fiction | 0 |

Dr. John Moran responded to Detective Allan Pinkerton’s query about who might have wished to kill Edgar Allan Poe. Moran had been the attending physician during Poe’s last hours. A Scottish immigrant, Pinkerton had migrated to America in 1842, seven years prior to Poe’s demise. He’d been a fan of Poe’s work, especially the stories featuring French detective August Dupin.

SIGNS BY AMY GALLOWAY

Posted by admin | Dec 5, 2016 | Poetry | 0 |

I could stand outside the candy store all day and never get a sweet taste
You could stroll past ignoring me or hand me a stick of gum
I could tell the story of the gum man
Or how the hawk pecked out my eyes and flew away with a shiny wrapper