• German Expressionist Silent Film Soliloquy

    German Expressionist Silent Film Soliloquy

    by Matt Schumacher You’re eligible for citizenship in nightmare country of somnambulists and nosferatus, or left amnesiac on the street of a dark, abandoned city, on the corner where a phantom carriage steals poets’ souls. Leering sorcerers lure dopplegangers from mirrors to ruin wild students. Sinister carousels whirl their evil carnival in a jagged, oblique…

  • Polar Vortex

    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 it growl and claw the pine-trunks. Don’t let it into the house unless you think it’s about to produce a…

  • The Carpenter’s Son

    The Carpenter’s Son

    by Katie Pukash mine is nothing but stain-each carving a little less.can’t say too much about the carpenterwhen the carpenter holds the only chisel.pliers for eyes-he will call you Floorboard andClaw hammer and Screwdriver and Sin-will knock at your throatuntil there is nothing but screws.stained and sealed-Mouth Wide and Shut.he won’t come back to search-not…