By rani Jayakumar “Eduardo, close the door.” The assistant shut the heavy gray door with a nearly silent click behind Arturo, who shuffled in with a slump. The dentist, or as Arturo called him in his head, “El Doctor,” motioned to him to sit on the brown reclining chair. The room smelled of fresh paint … Continue reading The Loud Inside
House of Ghosts, Three Kids Burned Out
By Maid Corbic The streets have become more and more deserted, so that we do not see their beginning, nor the end itself. Everything we kept looking for seemed to be gone forever, because our feelings haven’t changed. Yes, we are just children ready to love the world around us, and, of course, as such, … Continue reading House of Ghosts, Three Kids Burned Out
Blue Mires
By Gabriella Garofalo The stars are irked with the rough sea, The nosey parker who always gossips About his neighbours, the dwellers in a dreary flat, The wannabe failing lady, the ratty freaky guy, The wilful rattle-brained girl Bit fed up with books and words- For Heaven's sake, aren’t you so lonely, You withered twig where … Continue reading Blue Mires
About Stars and Their Catchers
By Yoelena Tkebuchava Once upon a time, man learned to exist without oxygen; he developed more complex contraptions to take him to Venus, to Saturn, to planets hundreds of milky ways beyond ours. Through the natural processes of evolution, his body organically adapted to these new frontiers. Some settled in the neighboring solar systems on … Continue reading About Stars and Their Catchers
Borderland and Other Poems
By Veronica Ashenhurst Borderland —In memory of S.P., my grandfather You’ve been pebbled grey ash in a box for years, while I’m a recluse, ill. We’re a quiet pair: displaced from the land, far from its gold wheat sea. But now, if you knew, you’d quake: the enduring country is a slaughter bench. Men of … Continue reading Borderland and Other Poems
The Magician
By Geoff Marshall Mr. Li intercepted Halo at the front desk of the Avalon lobby. He seemed preoccupied as he hooked his arm around Halo’s and dragged them back through the door. Halo heard a voice as the door swung closed. Leona calling for the old man. For real. She sprinted across the lobby floor, … Continue reading The Magician
An Offering of Orange
By Channie Greenberg
We’ve never met
By Lynn Long We’ve never met And I love you already I’ve always loved you And I know this now All the dreams The love songs The seeking You’ve always been How can it be For we’ve never met Yet, I see you in dream White hibiscus in a coral sea Butterfly kisses And the … Continue reading We’ve never met
The Silence of the Wild Dogs
By Dr. Elizabeth V. Koshy We had just settled on the playground of the Amravati University in a huge circle for lunch that day, when we noticed a few dogs, standing a few feet away from us, all looking towards us. A fawn coloured dog stood a little distance away from the other dogs and … Continue reading The Silence of the Wild Dogs
Choice and Other Poems
By Allison Grayhurst Choice I swayed and found fire on my backside, in my insides, quaking, cracking the edges and the surfaces, melting the dream that sustained me. Down the slide, there can be no laws but the law of commitment to love, to making up for winter by honouring the snow and days of … Continue reading Choice and Other Poems
Academy of the Heart And Mind 