I’m told that

By Dustin Holland space is cold vast and empty but at least there are bunnies

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did you ever do this?

By Ross Vassilev I remember those nights when I’d put on my shoes and go for a walk going nowhere at all there was the black night and the stars above me and I felt at home with the stray cats and abandoned cars I liked being alone and I would do random acts of [...]

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without trying

By Larry Jones all the things people say and do pretentious frauds. all the things I say & do bullshit phony. at my feet a dog without trying finally the truth.

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The Problem With Earthquakes

By John Schlegel Is it too soon for this metaphor? Should I wait until the day after the next wildfire or hurricane? Or were the tornados enough? You see, the problem with earthquakes, or should I say MY earthquakes, is that the epicenter is always me. The damage is entirely on my block, because I [...]

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umpteenth eating spree

By Sean Ulman ripe goo glazed in dew dirt cakes, sloughed skin flakes organ shakes, gooey pig poo baked on bacon crackers plastic-pasted, wasted food drunk… fooey, 2nds & 3rds 4 slackers spoons hay-cube-heaped w/ gelatin maroon soups: tail & nail stewed blood bouillabaisses plastic cases gases, dump the cartilage carts next to the mercury-stuffed [...]

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Gimp Porn

By Cerebella one man explodes forest fires. another dies licking a piggy bank worth a paranoid housewife. strawberry lips giggling dust bunnies to the clouds- he’s got forty dollars in his pocket worth time with southern gentlemen. ouzo. self-help books, too. they spread and whisper to themselves. we’re on a road to a dead end, [...]

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The Gridiron Diner

By Mather Schneider There is the usual gallery of wackos, homeless men lugging army surplus fardel, wild as sandpipers, yellow-throats, occasional hookers laughing like kookaburras. Life is a ziggurat of coffee-guzzling nut-bags. But, there is a waitress named Araceli, duchess of the diner, with the curves of a calathus vase and two yurts bivouaced high [...]

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Family Attraction

By Halifax Autopsy-Turvy JFK postures on the corner gurney his temple is laid open like a jelly doughnut the pudgy coroner said he had died at least, I think it was the coroner that said so I have this mental image of JFK it stays in my mind with his voice so a moving picture [...]

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Different Light

By Harry Calhoun In any afternoon there is the chance of a nova and you know how it looks and how it sounds and how it tastes. The ice cream and the light show of the universe are yours because you are a freak. And the sunshine causes seizures and the left eye fractures into [...]

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Work Ethic

By Kelly Thompson The thing that separates animals from people is the single opposable digit. What separates people from people are callouses. Pockets of love desensitized one heart working for another.

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