Tango
It was the music, you see. Slithering down alleyways, orange and white and gold. She could see it move through the air…the color. It had...
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D.J. Tyrer
- Apr 22
- 1 min
What Measure a Man?
As sun slowly swells, reddens DNA is nothing more than a plaything Take a little of this, a little of that See what you can make...
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Michael J. Barrington
- Apr 19
- 10 min
Magic at Stonehenge
An icy November wind swirled the dense mist over the Salisbury Plains almost obscuring Stonehenge. Professor Isaac Cedric Effingham,...
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C.W. Bigelow
- Apr 19
- 7 min
Escalator To Where?
The call woke Peter at 4 AM. At that time of the morning, it meant either a death in the family or his boss alerting him to an...
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Gargi Sidana
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Void in Sleep
An alpha-coexisting ray drooling over the magnetic flux of the brain. The brain that links the magnitude of grief and void. The void is a...
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Renee Coloman
- Mar 27
- 10 min
Robby’s Come to Play
The moment my morning alarm triggered me awake, I couldn’t help but recite the numbers swirling and twirling in my head. Happy numbers....
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Issy Jinarmo
- Mar 16
- 11 min
A Different Style of Green
I held tightly to the safety rail in the shower, my head lowered, warm water running over my hair and down my back. It was comforting but...
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James O'Brien
- Mar 15
- 8 min
My Beautiful Oubliette
I find the dark imperious, tyrannical, ambiguous, infallible but capable of kindness. It has many personalities. During each of the seven...
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Aether Avenue Press
- Mar 13
- 1 min
Surrendering To The Surreal, Anthology 1
Step into the fantastical realm of "Surrendering To The Surreal", an anthology that defies the boundaries of reality and beckons readers...
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LaVern Spencer McCarthy
- Mar 12
- 10 min
Aunt Maizie
School was out for the summer, and Willard and his twin brother, Dillard were happy. They couldn't wait to spend their days sleeping...
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Rekha Valliappan
- Mar 8
- 5 min
Canopy of Moving Parts
Part 1 “A canopied necropolis of moving parts I must enter? But, why?” “More an untamed zoo of remaining parts that loops, re-loops....
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J.R. Packard
- Mar 7
- 11 min
The Possum And The Plum
The 1st Day One day in late May, there lay a plum tree in an orchard beside a small knick knack shop. Suddenly, a plum fell from that...
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William Bryan Smith
- Mar 6
- 7 min
"I Hope Yesterday Will Be The First Time We Never Met", Part 2
Sea of Tranquility (the Moon) July 20, 1969 “Oh, cool,” she remarked, flatly. “The Moon.” “We need to talk.” “It’s not you,” she said....
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William Bryan Smith
- Mar 5
- 8 min
"I Hope Yesterday Will Be The First Time We Never Met", Part 1
He had not spoken to her since the French Revolution. The spaces between the galaxies were long and dark. On this side of the universe,...
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Jenna Calloway
- Mar 4
- 11 min
Ms. Wyld's Ride
Patrick held on to the struggling marine biologist, having managed to inject the sedative into his neck, and yearned for his days of...
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Tom Folske
- Mar 3
- 6 min
Bad Compensation
Oswald Erickson and his nine-year-old granddaughter Cynthia were cruising down the main road of the small town of DeSantis, population:...
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Ben Nardolilli
- Mar 2
- 1 min
You Are Safest in This Car
Calling this a roomette seems unfair, limiting it to the simulation of a hotel’s four stationary walls, a brief survey of the assigned...
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Ben Nardolilli
- Mar 2
- 1 min
Cosmopolis Weather
Sandstorms drift through this old utopia of ours, They blanket the gardens and fill in the pools, Our dream of a paradise in the city...
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Cathy Tonkin
- Mar 1
- 12 min
A Haunting of Oakwood Manor, Part 2
Part 9 I looked up hauntings in the area and learned that many folks believe that Duluth’s Enger Tower is haunted. While the park is...
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