Stop buying expensive sunglasses right before we break up for the last time. You laugh until you cry and you can’t breathe and your face starts to turn blue over a card that reads “A sad, fat dragon with no friends.” Fragmented memories that become further removed from reality each … More Dolphins 69ing at the Bottom of Your Pool – Eli Schroeder

I held my legs up to my chest with my arms surrounding my knees, a worn composition book balanced atop them. The cardboard cover and flimsy pages were held between my index and middle finger. My eyes scanned the little writing that I had on the page. My wrist fidgeted … More To Create a Utopia – Naomi Volcy

Father seats son beside him, and the mother follows his lead, seating daughter beside her Father speaks – pretty girls do not like that, and mother repeats – pretty girls are like that   Boy, do not beat around the bush – pretty girls do not like that Girl, your … More Home Brewed – Djennyca Ciceron

Located in the mid of a dell, the Blue Moon Bar is a hangout for the unusual and obscure. Crowds gather between the forgotten hours of the damp dry nights. Alternative music coruscates through the thick dim lighted air. The bartender invites everyone ordering a drink with an old whore … More Blue Moon Bar – Chris Joseph Stancato

I run through the dark forest, the place I return to every night. My feet stomp through the snow, leaving footsteps behind me. The sounds of crows flapping their wings and their calls fill the air as the sounds of trees rustling behind me gets closer. I run faster through … More Stuff of Nightmares – Yaniv Belker

    was the name of a story I wrote about you in creative writing class,   back before I knew how to arrange words on paper and coax them into   meaning. You could tell me it was sand they scried in the crystal, not beads,   but sand … More Beads in the Hourglass – Miniver Kundrata

emotional black hole man fights woman (police come) imploding psychiatric smorgesbord man kills woman (with gun) cruise prozac strip turns self over (law prevails) jugglers toss your sanity at gunpoint spends rest of life (in jail) jitterbugging on tightrope no net man fights woman (police come) this time/life/book of perversities … More The Six O’clock News – Sara E. Pearl

I made a promise to myself Knowing that, should I break It, the garden in my thoughts Would wilt and decay, Leaving not one seed behind: See, no matter what you Do, or how hard you try, with that Scheming mind and the mouth that Longs to joy with my … More The Day I Lost Myself – Christina Batista

My mother is in heaven   In fact, she is a lot of things A compiled list of complicated concepts That force the world to know She is an identity of her own   My mother is a flower   In more ways than just her name A favorite regardless … More Dahlia – Mia Orris

    Blood-choked cries and the shots heard ‘round the world did not quite reach Washington.