By Emma Grey Rose In Order: Midnight, The Place, Dreams II, and Dreams I Emma Grey Rose is a writer and artist based in San Diego, CA. Her artwork has been published in Bear Paw Arts Journal, is forthcoming in Quibble Lit, and has exhibited in San Diego. Her poetry has been published in the San Diego Poetry Annual, deLuge Literary … Continue reading Midnight and Other Artwork
How Inconsequential It Is To Be Angry at the Stranger Who Grabbed My Breast and Remembering Loneliness
By Anandi Kar How Inconsequential it is to be Angry at the Stranger Who Grabbed My Breast For the first time I felt the rush of time spraying all over my body like a broken garden sprinkler when a man touched my breast and ran. The fridge, at home, glowed with the yellow of the … Continue reading How Inconsequential It Is To Be Angry at the Stranger Who Grabbed My Breast and Remembering Loneliness
Poems on Tenacity
By Solape Adetutu Adeyemi Hold on desperately She holds on desperately To the unseeing eyesTo the uncaring heartShe holds on desperatelyShe knows it’s destructiveShe knows it’s frustratingYet, she holds on desperatelyHopeful in the hopelessDependent on the undependable Immortality The urge to last foreverThe need to be immortalThe words to last for generationsDrawing creations yet unbornThose … Continue reading Poems on Tenacity
Among The Stars, He Found Home
By Justin Dingler The journey was long and silent, excluding the ship’s steady heartbeat and the occasional crackle of communication from distant command centers. Where would he go and what would he find? Barren rocks? Icy giants? Gas clouds? Whatever it was, it wasn’t Earth. War, greed, lost love, broken promises. All Earth had ever … Continue reading Among The Stars, He Found Home
A Far Corner
By T.R. Healy Catching himself starting to doze off, Griffin closed his right hand into a fist and stared at it for a moment in the brittle sunlight. At once, he thought of his Uncle Roy who used to raise a fist above his head when he got angry and bellow, “If I open my … Continue reading A Far Corner
Autumn Call
By Bert Barry What impelled him to abandonwarmth – comfortthe security of his househe would never knowbut on a chill October nighthe found himself peering--only aided bya single powerful flashlight—avidly – eagerlypoised to enterthe narrow path opening amongrows of dry – dusty cornlong past the time for harvesting.He had never noticedsuch a path beforenow it … Continue reading Autumn Call
The Yarikkaya Wind of Alexandria
By Hannah Katerina “Iskenderiye’nin Yarıkkaya Rüzgari” or “The Yarıkkaya wind of Alexandria.” Refers to a famous wind which sweeps through the town of Iskenderun, Türkiye. The ancient city of Alexandria. Not Alexandria of Egypt, that’s the new one. No, this all happened in the ancient city of Alexandria, in modern Türkiye. There’s almost nothing left … Continue reading The Yarikkaya Wind of Alexandria
Where Beauty Meets Peace
By Noeline Ann Anthony The blazing light of the sun somehow manages to splash some paint into the ocean and turns it into a rippling blanket of jewel blue. The ocean turns blue boldly for a touch of drama with the support of the atmosphere to show its purity. Not only does it stretch to … Continue reading Where Beauty Meets Peace
Franklin Street 1957
By John Ziegler The rag man, in his broken shoes pushes his cart along the brick street, calls out with chafed voice,“Papers, magazines, rags.”.All afternoon the air is still and pale,the yellow leaves pasted to the wet street.Near dusk, Schmoyer’s farm truck clanks onto Franklin Street,loaded with cabbages, and carrots,potatoes with the mud still on.The … Continue reading Franklin Street 1957
Hungry Eyes
By Katie McCall Electricity cables stretch across the belly of the valley like old skin, crackling and hissing above our heads in the fading daylight. From up high, the last of the spring thaw drips down. You are here again on my part of the hillside, watching the sun drop behind the jagged peaks as … Continue reading Hungry Eyes
Academy of the Heart And Mind 