by Lauren Bender quickly, the rules of shacking up in a she shed. turn away from your real house like others turn away from satan, sparkling with distaste. display your set of chairs and their […]
The Best You Can Do
by Lauren Bender Her sweater takes your hand without bite, her head lifts to watch you dispense your charity. Her eye peels your skin away, and your insides scrunch up and then fold in on […]
Business Trips
by Lauren Bender I pack my identity guides, flip and re-flip the pages in my quest to make a catalog not just of what I am and not just of what I think I am […]
Blending Techniques 1 & 2
by Lauren Bender Don’t tell me there are people in this room; I can see them but that does not mean they exist. My sweater sleeve is mouth-soaked with the fear of swallowing. I am […]
Tipping Point
by Lauren Bender I bled out during the night. A small wound. I don’t know why. I woke to find my body drained, a bit dizzy. Must have been midnight when I hit empty, a […]
Honeymoon on the Volga
by William Doreski This is our third honeymoon and the first on which you’ve spoken to me, to anyone. The Volga flows under our little room. The innkeeper wields no recognizable language. Your native Russian […]
Polar Vortex
by William Doreski The cold pouring down from the Arctic has toughened into an entity. Some kind of hideous animal, not to be petted, trusted, or even fed. Let it forage as it will. Let […]
Sky is Dark
by Alexandria Liston A Tabby swaddled in cellophane. Smoldered stiff residue. Thinking if I didn’t eat, I could spend hundreds of dollars on clothes instead. Thinking less body would be good; Thinking less of […]
On a Nebraska Interstate at Night
by John Grey out of happiness, wretchedness, truth and falsity, comes this Nebraska highway, where wheat has devoured grasslands and fence posts lead the way — barely a kink in the surface, a dip in […]
Should I Sit Down
by Kevin Risner should I sit down with a block of tarot cards you flip each one right side up you go further down the line to the image you’re thirsting for raise it for […]
