Suburban Perseus
Contemporary Poetry I spend all my time screaming at walls and watching my prison sink. Circumvented by people I no longer respect, The tears they shed are meaningless like pages devoid of ink. Nothing,...
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Just Let Me Be
Poem Crazy, wild, so weird! Things I am, it’s me, Oh, just let me be! Blind and deaf, so astray! No need to say I have to see, Oh, just let me be!...
Jopp’s Folly – Part Seven (Finale)
Science Fiction The first few days of travel had been relatively uneventful. They had hit the first anomaly jump without issue, and were now about halfway across the Dayukon star system. Jopp was...
The Game Of Freedom
Poem Things we want don’t stay the same because we are beings of change and solitude. It is hard to choose and fulfill the dream whilst excluding all the other paths we may...
The Tale of the Body Snatchers
Mystery Fiction “I am an anatomist. On the 25th of October, I was to teach a lecture on the dissection of the human body. As I approached my lecture hall, I remember distinctly...
Unknown Reflection
Poem I see a face so like mine Staring at my every move Asking me why it is That I do the things I do In those sullen stares I hear Disappointment for all...
Freak – Part Five
Serial Short Story “Hey!” Any of the gallantry he had only moments ago was whisked away in an instant. Freak felt as his bowels clenched and then loosened. A smidgen of urine now streamed...
Portrait – Part IV
Poem Up! She pushed. Up! She was still. A dead elephant. So still she felt the babe’s throbbing. They could do nothing. Her children, 5 and 6, fed and washed — she wept. Up!...
Untitled — Swearing Off
Breakup Poem I finally have to go Will I write you? Possibility will be on your side As soon as I make room with parting It’ll feel that uncomfortable sensation Of my warmth, still...
Last Laugh
Haibun Poem Sitting on a rock, cross-legged, I pretend to meditate. My eyes half-closed, hands on my knees fingers up, I keep repeating “ommm.” Even when he’s so far up the trail, I...
