by Lyn White & Rooks There are just two pieces left. Two fragments of our dreams. Two castles in the air, the remnants of a game we played where there was no winner. Like a […]
Baba Yaga
by Caitlin Copland I dreamed of the Yaga. She looked me in the eye told me she would consume me. I was not afraid — even when she opened the skylight and began painting with my […]
Mental Health Day on Sunset Boulevard
by Gabriel Ricard Emily and her huge teeth had to learn the weird-waitress- in-a-small-neighborhood-being-eaten- alive-by-the-bigger-surrounding-one- way that you can’t just decide to go to Hollywood, because that’s easier than telling everyone that love is just […]
Cafone
by Salvatore Difalco When my father was in the late stages of terminal lung cancer — chemo and two operations had not slowed it down — a group of his friends came to our house to visit him. They […]
The Empress
by Caitlin Copland Galaxies are breaking from your skin, love. Purple clad mystics, climbing stairwell veins, to breathe the tides of your good graces. Resting behind midnight blue arcana you sit, Venus, crowned in sanguine […]
Forgive Us
by Salvatore Difalco “Ma,” my sister said, “we’re taking you to an appointment. We have to be there at ten o’clock. Do you understand, ma?” Maria, the oldest of my cousins, had come along for […]
To Great Lengths
by Gabriel Ricard Your out of body experience may vary, and a lot of it is going to depend on where you want the kids who won’t go home to bring your bones, when you’ve […]
Heartwarming Hostage Situation
by Gabriel Ricard Doctors and other assorted medical personnel are moving in and out of the cafeteria with varying degrees of arrogance, exhaustion, and the sincerity to do more than the current limits of control […]
