After months of hard work, Panku’s 61st volume has finally been released! The volume can be accessed using the link below. Panku Volume 61 – Issue 1    

I guess I’ll be your bitch If it’s better than your hoe, But being a bitch doesn’t mean you own me Just thought you should know If you like the way it sounds Or just prefer not to speak my real name It’s fine, just make sure that your sister … More Bitch – Brittany Pryce

Life’s but a series of tumultuous waves upon the sea, Pulling all but the dead in its tow. We are caught like pebbles in the tide; Picked up, rolled over, and dropped, Only to be picked up again by the following roll. Tumbling and turning through time The pebbles are … More Sea of Life – Susan Stevens

Small talk before class, I met you then, Acquaintances.   Acting like children in a college order, Giggling, smiling, flirting… Friends.   Closer A crush for you. I showed no interest Just friends… Best friends.   Talking, Listening, Understanding, Connecting… Loving, Falling for each other, Naive, unaware Soulmates…   But … More Numb – Helen Anne Kirfides

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

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