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The Elbow, Daniel J. Flosi
Out by the lake there's a place where we stalk the flowers, between the thousand fingered shore and the loops of the bowline. We found...
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
For All That I Have Consumed (III: Corpse), Robin Sinclair
CW: mentions of death As the body starves, the lungs begin to wither, breaths – shallow gradually like a dwindling brook that winds...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 1 min
For All That I Have Consumed (II: Pretender), Robin Sinclair
I am sorry it was only real to you was only a caricature of what was expected was only alive for your benefit was only pretending to be...
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- Nov 22, 2021
- 1 min
For All That I Have Consumed (I: Carnivore), Robin Sinclair
I am sorry when you felt my body ache for you, it was not the throb of lascivity but the pangs of hunger, even as flesh twisted together...
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- Sep 12, 2021
- 1 min
Belonging, Melody Wang
CW: death, ghost Magnolia Street saw the horror of a decade, smoke snaking up the Victorian, a life snuffed inside the back house: "just...
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- Sep 11, 2021
- 1 min
All That We've Lost, Melody Wang
CW: loss, death, suicide Late afternoon and the world slept on, cocooned in shale-green coolness. A tremulous breath preceded your last...
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- Sep 10, 2021
- 1 min
You were not prepared, Melody Wang
for the quiet return, an alabaster hand on the red curtain reaching gnarled fingers for buried answers in rat-infested tunnels that still...
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- Sep 8, 2021
- 1 min
Honey-eater, Rick Hollon
CW: bodily injury including broken bones, scarring Honey-eater marked my sunburn shins split and granite battered scratches on broken...
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- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Noctambulent Fiends, Ian Bain
hunger beneath piles of sun-bleached bones, luminous in moonlight fiends drown in stolen marrow. Screams echo off the canyon walls echo...
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- Aug 19, 2021
- 1 min
Lost, found, Catriona Roy
You went looking for solitude In the forest Amongst trees in leaf-light, Not this; Shadows rustle In the forest You didn't expect...
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- Aug 14, 2021
- 1 min
No-One Ever Told Me Why I Shouldn't Go Into the Woods, Elaine Doerr
3rd Place Winner of the "In the Woods Somewhere" Contest go deeper stalk your own fear leave behind what brought you here lost brother,...
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- Aug 14, 2021
- 1 min
Swamp Lesson, Jack Bedell
1st Place Winner of the "In the Woods Somewhere" Contest My uncle taught me not to fear noises in the swamp. Nothing that wants your...
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- Aug 13, 2021
- 1 min
compline, Katy Naylor
there are trees that reach between worlds these roots that connect us ygdrassil Odin swings half blind, drunk on wisdom this trunk that...
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- Aug 12, 2021
- 1 min
vespers, Katy Naylor
sometimes I walk through the forest on the very edge of dusk the air sharpening the branches’ shadows lengthening and I could sing for...
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- Jul 28, 2021
- 2 min
Bathtime, Sophia Holme
Seven thirty submerge Sipping whiskey with honey with lemon juice stinging the ripping on my cuticles pumice stone nipping at my heels'...
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- Jul 27, 2021
- 2 min
M for Murder, Astrid Bridgwood
CW: death, murder, violence You, devil. Killer. Man in the dark Finger to his lips knife to my neck: you Snake and gravedigger....
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- Jul 26, 2021
- 1 min
Hometown Paradise, Astrid Bridgwood
A sign on the left. A post half-rotted Another neon prophet screaming JESUS SAVES Across the street, a motel. A girl slumped with...
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- Jul 25, 2021
- 2 min
Rubble, Astrid Bridgwood
I am apocalyptic & I am the end of the world but my mother says I’m sick again Born shaking with rage, insatiable. Laugh in your face....
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- Jul 14, 2021
- 1 min
The Bull & The Piano, Russell Zintel
They carted the piano to the middle of the field on rain wings. Anyone driving by surely thought it was a bull, hunched Into whatever...
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- Jul 13, 2021
- 1 min
For Posterity, Russell Zintel
CW: death Our bones We wish they were better at the connections What gets in the way of their chipping Not seeing pain when looking upon...
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