By David William Jurgenson Frankenstein, Missouri Headmaster McGovern squeezed a crimson stress ball in his ancient, liver-spotted hand that looked like a heart. “Miss Vallow, after careful consideration by the Ritterson board, we've made the unanimous decision to expel you from school.” He locked his eyes with hers. “Unless you’ve got anything to say that … Continue reading The Ritterson School for Psychic Powers
A Perfect Apple
By Ethan Houldsworth My greatest fear in life will always be the end of it, the blistering uncertainty of what comes after, will I ever be in a position where I can accept nothingness? Will I ever feel comfortable with my death? Should I ever feel comfortable with my death? I’m really not sure. I … Continue reading A Perfect Apple
The Lonely Beach
By Winter Burress I sit by the seaOn a lonely beachBut the beach and I Can’t truly be lonely,Because now we’re together.I keep the beach companyAs I talk to it,As I tell it storiesEven in the pausesOf my breath.The beach stays silentAnd it listensTo my every wordAs I pour my heartInto the cold ocean.As the … Continue reading The Lonely Beach
Otherness
By Gabriel Alencar The Demon of the Deep Abyss couldn’t stand it anymore: “Heck, it’s always the same crap”, he said, throwing his tentacles in the air. “I’m so done with the pentagrams, salt and candles, heck, with rituals at three in the morning. THREE in the morning! For God’s sake! “The last one called … Continue reading Otherness
A List for Later
By Bradford Middleton I’m going to start building a list, A shelf of books, to read later on in my life,A shelf of classics I’ve so far overlooked.I’ll know that somehow before my lifeIs over I’ll need to read them just becauseThey exist and my mind will not be ableTo rest unless I somehow do. … Continue reading A List for Later
Today, Part 5
By Clarence Allan Ebert Fearful It’s a hot Thursday night & Sorrow sleepsthough less soundly than a fattened newborn,tired of poking her nose into everybody’s business. I am free to find bright glintsthe sun surrendered to a happy, so it seemed, shooting stara sliver of temporary brillianceafter all day bounding over the moon,and prepare my … Continue reading Today, Part 5
The Nut I Never Cracked
By John McCally The following is an account by Mr. Gustus Frazier, SVP, Guthrie Bank, Hazard, KY. My dealings with Mr. Horus “Buck” Atchley of Decoy, Kentucky commenced more or less as follows. In October, 1964, near the end of my third year at Guthrie Bank, I was handed the task of drubbing up new … Continue reading The Nut I Never Cracked
Winter Birch and Other Poems
By James Joseph Snyder Winter Birch stark white bones of bare birch protrudeinto the skytrunks rise up with splayed branches thrust out naked and rawdisplayed in front of tall trees of leaves still dyingtrees swaying with leaf-mass sails in cold amblingwind biding its time for winter stormswhile white bones stiff nothing to move them withwind … Continue reading Winter Birch and Other Poems
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
Academy of the Heart And Mind 