By Phil Flott Alice Didn’t you know that I am eternally grateful to you for being my children’s aunt. You inherited the muscles of Uncle Ben and smiles from Theta Lil. I have been back in Omaha only two years, was just about to re-contact you. You dared, To fight the stroke, but obeyed the … Continue reading Alice and Other Poems
The Path to Joy
By Vaishnavi Kolluru The secret to joy Lies in a river that flows forward, making you believe its truth, until you reach the end The secret to joy Controls the waves of the ocean You indulge in a small cold wave getting your feet wet The rush is nice so you further cloud the air … Continue reading The Path to Joy
Wildflowers
By Ian Copestick As today has been an idyllic summer 's day, when I took my dog for a walk, I thought I'd get off the main path. Explore the nearby countryside. I walked through fields, or meadows, I don't know what the difference is, full of knee high grass, and wildflowers. It's the most … Continue reading Wildflowers
Maybe That’s Why
By John Best Maybe that’s why when your car scraped into the rutted driveway and you emerged like a pharaoh seeking your resurrection with gold-leafed ferocity in your eyes, I was not your Isis. Maybe that’s why when your greedy fingers slid through the valleys between each rib counting coup, my soul flew like a … Continue reading Maybe That’s Why
Little bird, flying high
By Tim Law Little bird, flying high I see you above me and wonder why? Why is it that you don’t go above? To the place beyond the clouds, filled with people we love Little bird, I pray you do Fly down to me, hear my message for you The words which I need desperately … Continue reading Little bird, flying high
13 Halloween Tales: HiLee Frankenstein by Dylan Jack James
“HiLee Frankenstein” was previously published in Legacy Magazine under the title “What Scares You?” I was four years old when my father and mother first took me trick or treating down our little village street. It was a crisp cool Halloween night and the smell of cherry wood hung in the air from the only … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: HiLee Frankenstein by Dylan Jack James
13 Halloween Tales: Thrice in One Sitting by Justin Alcala
“One witch can do more harm than a thousand common thieves,” Silas Fear-The-Lord Doddridge recited along the road to Pontybridge village. It was a dreadful afternoon in New England, but three facts rolled Silas out of his inn’s bed on this wet autumn day. First, as the Malleus Maleficarum stated, Those who deny the reality … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: Thrice in One Sitting by Justin Alcala
13 Halloween Tales: Diaphanous Spirit by Mary Steinberg
Diaphanous Spirit Ethereal Sprite Dancing on moonbeams Glossy and bright. Floating by freely Uplifting unwound Drifting and wafting Not making a sound. Spiritual Being Spun-silver delight Diaphanous Spirit Spectacular sight! Vaporous Mystic Incantations surround Swirling and swaying And turning around. Gossamer Traveler Translucence alight Releasing Your magic On Hallow’s Eve Night.
13 Halloween Tales: The Cemetery by Kirsty Duncan
I always liked old graveyards, peaceful and quiet, familiar places, their histories of families, communities, until that fateful day, when I failed to heed the sentries’ warnings to grave robbers and all who dared walk among the dead, as I descended down the lichen covered steps of the blackened churchyard, read each darkened headstone, walked … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: The Cemetery by Kirsty Duncan
13 Halloween Tales: The Ghost of Baron Von Something R. Other by B. Craig Grafton
“Yep there used to be a coal mine back there on my property. You boys have seen the filled in shaft holes in the ground, those depressions five or six feet deep, and the coal slag piles when you’ve been mushroom hunting back there haven’t you?" The two twelve year old boys nodded their heads … Continue reading 13 Halloween Tales: The Ghost of Baron Von Something R. Other by B. Craig Grafton
Academy of the Heart And Mind 