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red string dairy

by Mrs. Rosenkrantz Above. A single cherry red string hangs in the light. How to weave a thread so thin? The fray a halo. The string hangs loosely. A series of slight ess curves. Esses. Nothing was tied to the bottom. A red so bright it burns and…

Slash for Captain Marvel #34

by Glen Armstrong 누드에서 당신과 함께 서쪽을 보았다.Call the nurse to hear the egg hatching. 총을 두려워하면서 나는 당신의 신발을 놓쳤습니다.In a very short time you were flying. 의상 보석은 나뭇 가지에 걸렸다.We added simple syrup to the mixture. 모든 매연을 모든 불타 속옷과 일치시킵니다.Drums say dance; witches…

Recadrus!

by Erwin Dink content warning: alcohol is a virus that day on the beach – deja vu – the explanation is the experience manifest – the explanation is a lie – everything is a lie – anything that’s ever happened – to anyone – at any point in…

Noble Dreams

by nOble Trigger Warnings: Attempted manipulation of reader. Do not read if you are friends or family of the author. Within the church’s nave a modest line had formed leading up to the confession box. At the front of the line as one penitent exited, I stepped forward…

The Sun Singer

by Mike Sherer “Soft sound caresses the valley/rabbits quiver and run/the virgin trees are awakened/as the Sun Singer sings to the sun.” I whisper these lyrics to myself. Sitting on my back deck on a brilliant spring day, I bask in the sun I am singing about. I…

Plea

by Carson Wolfe A young woman found dead in her homeleaves a note to her pathologist. The amethyst egg tucked inside my pussyis essential for strengtheningboundaries. You are probably thinking, this dead girlneeded a restraining order,not boundaries. Fold open my eyelids, stainedwith a white shield of energyI imagined…

When You Want to be Glad You Failed

by Megan Wildhood ink-black anvil less chiseled organized integrated they were like me the trees so tall they rained from the sky rained sky rained sky nothing cools adheres partitions renditions beings well nothing nothing nothing tingles of resistance no more what was the stop in that groundless…

Bazooka Bounce

by Patrick Sweeney So, another Lisbon dusk; another hillside mirador. It was Holy Saturday cued by a sign for an Easter egg hunt that seemed to have been postponed for a fat storm cell that ended up swinging wide. The sign was in Portuguese but heavily illustrated. When…

Hi, hot wife

by Ron Riekki Hi, hot wife. I sit and watch a smoker smoke in the smoke.This city is on fire, but in slow motion, so nobody is worried.We are in a prison called home.And school.The social work program brings me in and threatens that if I speak about…

disadvantage cycle

by Joshua Martin one case frown:ennui tossed handlebar fruit basket consider the commodification ofEVERYTHING [!] , netherworldsspin shakenperching glow , attitude to bag ofchips :‘DROP DEAD!’ frying another tire yummy yummy yummy tubes collapse instinctuallyforming calypso shatteringwide-eyed skyline frostbite weary bootslick stamina ¡reality cannot defend itself! enigmatic sphincter,…

Water Wheel

by Aidan Stickles Thinking the water wheel feelslike an appeal toa field shieldingcongealed real sealsis similar to realseals congealing to shielda field of appeals like a feelingwater wheel thinks

The Joke is What

by Ivars Balkits The joke is it’s the last clown to appear who introduces the topic. Let’s go there first and work our way backward as only clowns can do. It has to be the clown talking to himself. How explain the charity of knocking himself silly? Artificial…

Surveys Have Revealed

by Erwin Dink This was originally published at Don’t Submit. Females more susceptible to seem to be associated than males, potentially making backgrounds. Potentially making backgrounds. Experiences likely to believe in external control from parental relationships and untrustworthy environments. And untrustworthy environments. These environments in external control, and…

Still Water

by Christian Aldana 1) the white house—sob!!—is sick. here lies—er—er—the United—whee—understood its strategyto lose votes your screen—ech—has been running—awk—a gold grinwide & empty. 2)god, america is stuck in business with henry that’s true … why 3)Henry may be found in a grave.A hundred years blur& somewhereHenry hacksthe ghastly…

I is to the I is Another

by Stacy Black As tedium is to lethargy. As Dante is to being lost in a dark wood. As graduate writing programs are to the professionalization of American lettersand the hazy intersection of art and commerce. As a self-reinforcing feedback loop is to the stranded time-traveler. As a…

Threads of the Soul

by Taya Boyles The sinew and the paper mill’s smogreach the clouds like the first time holding handsand the last.Oh, Eli Somer, if you know, you know. #MADDYou would know I ghosted the edges of my souland found no seam,a single thread I could robfrom ‘immaculate’ conception.No pinnable…