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Love In the Time of Comcast

May 15, 2022 by Andrew O'Kelly
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Heart

May 15, 2022May 15, 2022 by Marianne Connolly
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Two Hearted

May 15, 2022 by Dean Douthat
The Wound
May 2, 2022 by Lee Marc Stein

The Wound

He sits down on the end of the park bench she occupies and turns to her. She smiles. “My throat is sore,” he rasps.  

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A (Multiple Choice) Test
May 2, 2022May 3, 2022 by Alice Wilson

A (Multiple Choice) Test

This is a multiple choice test. For the best results, please answer intuitively without thinking too much about each question. Circle the answer that you

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Selfie
April 24, 2022 by Michael Baldwin

Selfie

Holding her phone aloft, a lovely arms-length away, her lips part wide from perfect snowy teeth, yet her smile can’t quite find the laugh lines

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Sign Language
April 24, 2022 by Mark Fleckenstein

Sign Language

Read my lips, your name smeared all over them  like someone choking, my last words before sleep   replaces dying for another night. I can 

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Philomena
April 24, 2022 by Ian Douglas Robertson

Philomena

For as long as I can remember I was in love with Philomena. I can picture her now sitting in dappled shade under an apple

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Tom
April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 by Alison Goeller

Tom

I’m on a ladder painting the Peterson’s gutters when Josie’s mother pulls up in that old green Chrysler of theirs, thick black smoke shooting out

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Reset
April 24, 2022 by Matt Cantor

Reset

Click of a cigarette lighter makes me turn my head– you aren’t supposed to do that here, are you? I thought that was a thing

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Two Poems
April 24, 2022 by George Gad Economou

Two Poems

farewell to a white rose atop a mountain, overlooking the sea that was always dreamt but never attained, you sit, finally at peace. a single,

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Fingering a Severed Rhapsody
April 24, 2022May 15, 2022 by Kelly Sargent

Fingering a Severed Rhapsody

Listen. I’m deaf. I can’t hear you. Use your hands to Speak to me. He tilts his head … curiously. I Hear Fingers humming a

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Reflections
April 18, 2022 by R.A. Buratovich

Reflections

*CW: This piece contains references to suicide.    The mirror over the sink in the bathroom tells me I do not exist. I know I

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Family Hands
April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 by Duane Herrmann

Family Hands

My father’s hand had a shorter finger cut by grain auger; his father, one, from infection. My hands are scarred, from work I’ve done, for

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I knew I loved you the day you bit me
April 18, 2022April 24, 2022 by Amy Marques

I knew I loved you the day you bit me

Until then I wanted to love you, but I wasn’t sure I could.  You grew inside me, expanding my belly to an impossible mound. From

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Lovelorn
April 18, 2022 by Cheryl Ntumy

Lovelorn

We are in Tangle. Fierce, heat and sweat and pumping blood. Skin singing, fingertips tracing jawline and collarbone and pelvis, easing, deep breaths, slow and

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Two Poems
April 18, 2022 by Geoffrey Aitken

Two Poems

razor you say           give it to me           straight           forthright don’t

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Dear Diary
April 18, 2022 by John Steckley

Dear Diary

September 3 Dear Diary: I cannot believe that I am doing this.  It seems like such a 12-year-old girl thing to do – Dear Diary

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