By Thomas Page You find yourself locked in a dungeon with no idea how you got there. Covered with gossamer and dried stains (blood?) you look up at the door with light spilling out and think that whoever put you in here must want that door closed tight. You try to stand but find a … Continue reading The Sacrifice
Fallen Angels
By Chad Horn
Eternal Game
By Ann Christine Tabaka Night sounds amble away with starlight at their heels. Seeking out the yawn of morning’s sleepy outstretched arms. Hours, four and twenty, play tag amongst themselves. A game the moon knows all too well. Dreams come to rest on shoulders white as milk, until the sunlight beckons, with eyes the color of … Continue reading Eternal Game
The Gate
By Thomas Page Now, I want to make sure I understand what you have said to me. You said, "You have only one sentence to convince me to let you through the gate." Does this count as a sentence or do you signal to me when my only sentence is done or do you just … Continue reading The Gate
Burnished Silver Pull Knobs
By Ann Christine Tabaka Burnished silver pull knobs on wooden drawers, distort the images of surrounding objects. I am intrigued, trying to discern the blurry world being reflected back at me. My perception of reality is twisted and stretched following the spherical shape of the handles. The effects are quite disturbing, playing games with my vision. … Continue reading Burnished Silver Pull Knobs
Punishment
By Nalini Priyadarshni on 21.10.2017 To a former lover-of-sorts Between what we like and what we do what lasts longest is the possibility of love left unexplored by our younger unsullied selves We keep replaying in our heads and watch in slow motion lies we believed, in our naivety benign designs of divine intervention Awkward and … Continue reading Punishment
‘Tunnel Visioned Trooper’
By Chad Horn
My Philosophy of Teaching
By John Page My philosophy of teaching is that education should be an activity that brings joy to the student. If education is done correctly, then the student and the teacher will find learning to be something to look forward to doing and not as a chore that many seem to feel education has become. … Continue reading My Philosophy of Teaching
Acts of God and Mom
by Wanda Morrow Clevenger a quake hit at the housing way back when shaking Mom’s aluminum glasses on top the fridge I heard them rattle briefly upstairs in my bedroom before the floor moved it was the only quake to memory in all our years there Mom gave the glasses to the kids in Kansas … Continue reading Acts of God and Mom
Cheese
By Emma Woodford Where we together when we ate that cheese? That one that pooled on our tongues And made them curl in concentration Around its tangy sting? Where you there when we ate that cheese? Shooting down a summer breeze With chunks of bread so soft They melted in our mouths And took the … Continue reading Cheese
Academy of the Heart And Mind 