Another Renaissance
Haibun Poetry The maple tree by the deck blooms. Small leaves sprout from the tiniest tendril branches growing from her moss-infested trunk. She wasn’t supposed to live this season. Now sparrows perch on...
Short stories & poems for everyone from everyone
Haibun Poetry The maple tree by the deck blooms. Small leaves sprout from the tiniest tendril branches growing from her moss-infested trunk. She wasn’t supposed to live this season. Now sparrows perch on...
Contemporary Fiction I am an expert at sliding out of bed without disturbing whoever is sleeping in it, but this thing is ridiculous. Every time I attempt to untangle myself from the extraneous limbs,...
Free Verse Story Poems Esther pinched her shearling’s collar tight to her neck, stood dazed and stared at the grey pavement before her as if it were possible to pull up and fold the...
Love Poem You starved the emotions out of me as a winter’s frost Bringing forth the sugars from the leaves Turning them to the rusts and yellows that bleed out through these pores...
Short Story About two years ago, a long-lost classmate from high school added me as a friend on Facebook. This lady happened to be a friend I had immediately lost contact with following graduation....
Poem On the bed a shadow of a man can still be seen, If you squint enough, And there is still enough. They say he had it rough; He won’t say anymore, So...
Poem The wind was trying to outspeak me, the sky was a frozen sea, my hands, my legs did not believe me, I could barely see, the dreadful night was almost there, it...
Sci-Fi Serial Fiction “What do you say, Sweets? Have you ever seen anything more beautiful than that?” Jopp and Loi were gazing up at an Infinity Class UberHauler spacecraft. It was as tall as...
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction I walked down what was once a city street, now weathered, split, and overgrown. The remnants of an American flag still flew high above be me. It stood tall and arrogant....
Serial Novel Valerie sat in quiet defeat, her left hand on the arm of the floral patterned sofa and the other in the hand of her husband Charles, sitting in loyal support. His shoulders...