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Death in a Foreigner's Tongue, Isabella Melians
Previously published in Ice Lolly Review I. Él sana a los que tienen el corazón roto y venda sus heridas (Psalm 147: 3) Their locutions...
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notdeermag
- May 3, 2021
- 1 min
An American Fugue Of Neon Brain Matter, BD Salvas
I am the eurythmy dancer in the yellow wallpaper A disfigured field of poppies and rue Where the sacred deer Goes feral only for a second...
notdeermag
- May 2, 2021
- 1 min
Car Horn, Siren Screech, BD Salvas
CW: stalking, gore Twoheaded, a codependent predator, The beast roars down the stillness. Never heard of colorblindness, only the...
notdeermag
- Apr 30, 2021
- 2 min
Ningyo, Tashi Saheb-Ettaba
CW: mild blood I just want to be left alone. To roam wherever I please as I sing my song. But men like you keep coming after me. You...
notdeermag
- Apr 29, 2021
- 1 min
Equinox, Callan Latham
My god answers me in a fit of teeth. It’s almost midnight, past the yellowing of the horizon. Grass not yet bare enough to collect dew,...
notdeermag
- Apr 26, 2021
- 1 min
Rural Patricide, K. Blair
CW: religious horror, threats of violence, threat of human sacrifice He takes me to the corn field where the sky is so vast it could...
notdeermag
- Apr 25, 2021
- 1 min
Catamenia, Louise Mather
At night, the deer at the window of the cottage. Her eyes share death with you; the child back in the woods, fetching water and blood....
notdeermag
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Lusus Naturae, Ariel Moniz
Also appears in Voyager Magazine Is it in jest that we are secured by the mortal coil to the insidious machine of the heart, that beats...
notdeermag
- Apr 21, 2021
- 1 min
A Lexicon for Apocalypse, Ariel Moniz
Also appears in Voyager Magazine It has that iron teeth, gunpowder reek and I know then what comes— it will taste like blood in the...
notdeermag
- Apr 20, 2021
- 1 min
Goddess, Ariel Moniz
You once waxed fat with hallowed prophecies, have you grown weary from the search and blasphemy? If I had known the taste of God, and the...
notdeermag
- Apr 19, 2021
- 1 min
Return, Briana Gonzalez
CW: gore, blood/body horror Mangle open the cavern of my chest and weave my entrails along the tree branches. Let them photosynthesize....
notdeermag
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
The Beast of Dean, Christina Ciufo
Over the white, wooden gate, on the steel train tracks of Parkend railway station, and beyond the evergreen hills of Gloucestershire lays...
notdeermag
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
in the garden of the dead, Karlo Sevilla
with invisible butterfly net i catch a spirit lemniscate an amperian loop of wraith iron fillings that keeps slipping through the mesh...
notdeermag
- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
Nophobia, Ellen Huang
One night in the belltower haunted walls and infested spirits will let you learn to shudder, they said But what horrid phantoms they...
notdeermag
- Apr 12, 2021
- 1 min
Robber Bridegroom's Widow, Ellen Huang
CW: blood, violence What to do with the corpses Once the warlock himself is stew? These are the preserved remains Of other brides like...
notdeermag
- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
Sing, As Birds Will, Ellen Huang
They parried with sticks and ate apples in the wood. A forbidden friendship formed without so much as blood between stepbrother and...
notdeermag
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Not Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, Ashy Blacksheep
Jacob and I used every utensil and tool in our father's garage at least twice though likely never once for its intended purpose. And so...
notdeermag
- Apr 8, 2021
- 1 min
Disparition, B F Jones
CW: death She walked into the woods On a starry night And never Came out; Her footprints Quickly fading, Drowning into the mud, Soon...
notdeermag
- Apr 7, 2021
- 1 min
i should have dated a chupacabra instead, Jessica Howatson
CW: implied physical/sexual assault you told me you were a vampire swore black and blue and mottled yellow the next morning swore with...
notdeermag
- Apr 4, 2021
- 2 min
what the heart isn't through a process of elimination, LE Francis
The light bleeds green — the tin-glow of heaven transmuted in a puff of breath; the jailed sighs of a lioness rattle against the gnash of...
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