"Christmas Yet to Come" By Len Saculla Peter 181 BM pressed his button nose hard against the polyglass window and gazed excitedly at the winter sky above the capital city. His maternal grandfather, Aaron 797 BM, gently squeezed the boy’s shoulder, grinned like he was still six years old, and asked, ‘Can you see Santa … Continue reading Christmas Contest: Fiction 2nd Place
Christmas Contest: Poetry 1st Place
"The Ghosts of Christmas Past" By Micah Singleton The Ghosts Of Christmas Past As a cold wind blows, the hour comes fast, to a time when Christmas, will be part of the past. With no tree of lights, and no gifts to bear, a man sits alone, as a chill fills the air. His fire … Continue reading Christmas Contest: Poetry 1st Place
Christmas Contest: Fiction 1st Place
A Christmas Gamble By Matt McGee Christmas is giving. It’s surprises. The unexpected. Maybe, some years, there can be just a little bit of magic thrown in. Some people need to be alone to feel that. Chris loves to lie in her room, lights off or at least dimmed down to little more than a … Continue reading Christmas Contest: Fiction 1st Place
A Hole In The Sheet
By Wanda Morrow Clevenger after our first was born Mom came out one day for the whole day made stew did some laundry found and mended a hole in the bedsheet took note of every little thing asked embarrassing questions mothers ask daughters at these times I hemorrhaged after the birth was … Continue reading A Hole In The Sheet
Connector Flights of the Bumblebee
By Ryan Quinn Flanagan The mail comes and I stand up tall beat my bare chest like a silverback gorilla tearing paper towels from the rack dismembering the television down to its various parts the job interview was not a success I told them some things I should not have … Continue reading Connector Flights of the Bumblebee
Banana Spots
By Marianne Brems The crackling green of early life becomes the yellow jacket of pride in perfect banana ripeness. But soon shy specs of brown rear their tiny heads, grow confident, mature into warrior spots puffing out their chests, charging into a softening yellow marsh, rejoicing in their twilight advance. Multiplying, Conquering, until finally … Continue reading Banana Spots
The Baptist Evil Eye
By Wanda Morrow Clevenger we girls learned to sew and sew well Mom saw to that with four years of home-ec some cooking thrown in in the bargain I waited for her to leave for work then shortened my dress by 3 inches before school taking it out later with one long … Continue reading The Baptist Evil Eye
The Untranslatable: Toska
By Thomas Page The Untranslatable This is a series of poems of words that do not directly translate into English. I have tried to capture the essence of the word in a poem. The ticks of a tock slow down to a mockery, The ebbs of a flow slow down to a disappointment, The pushes … Continue reading The Untranslatable: Toska
A Piano Falls
By Marianne Brems As I climb up a third flight of stairs, a piano falls from the sky. Invisible, silent. It lands slowly, deliberately burrowing into my quads. No path to climb out. Somewhere along the way a neuron shifts. A familiar handle sits just out of reach. A window seems harder to … Continue reading A Piano Falls
While Dancing With Boys
By Wanda Morrow Clevenger at the Coliseum one Saturday night while dancing with boys some pissy prom queens robbed me lightened my bag of compact, lipstick, perfume leaving the money I took it as a compliment
Academy of the Heart And Mind 