Showcase - Week of: 7/10-16/21

New Submissions:

• The Play - By Mike Turner

• Brilliant Glow - By Tracey Ross

• A Door Kept Open - By C.L.Norby

• The Pillow - By Ranjith Sivaraman

• The Future - By Kevin McDermott

• Isolation - By Michal Mahgerefteh

• Detachment - By Shih-Fang Wang

• To My Child, Stillborn - By Amy Losi

• Livin' with the Animals - By K. L. Shipley

• Melancholy and Joy - By Ngoc Nguyen

• The Birmingham Preacher - By Pete Black

• Finding An Empty Envelope - By C.L.Norby

• Peaceful Existence Lost - By Brenda Arledge

• A Message from the Earth - By C. Holloway Ashwanden

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Future - By Kevin McDermott

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Showcase - Week of: 7/3-9/21

New Submissions:

• Lost In Pensive Mood Past Noontime - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Lunch with Paul No 2 Flightline Cafe - By Stephen Barile

• Happiness And Contentment - By Marvelio Oxford

• One Father's Day Like This - By Chris Platt

• Twenty Years Later - By Monalisa Parida

• He’ll Nevermore Return - By Ken Gosse

• Northwest Passage - By Paula Bonnell

• Emotional River - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Shared Harmonic - By Marc Charette

• Pieces of My Being - By Divita Barfa

• Losing Sanity - By Brenda Arledge

• Join Humanity - By Tracey Ross

• The Stabbing - By K. L. Shipley

• This Bus - By Fred Miller

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Happiness And Contentment - By Marvelio Oxford

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Showcase - Week of: 6/26-7/2/21

New Submissions:

• Alabama - By Nick Young

• Il Fattorino - By Chris Platt

• Flopcrates - By Bungler Bill

• Richard III - By K. L. Shipley

• Carry Humanity - By Tracey Ross

• Small Courages - By Russell Willis

• Her Courage - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Give Me Strength - By Daisy Forrest

• Get Forked - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• You Gave Me Courage - By Brenda Arledge

• Against Stasis - By Susan Maxwell Campbell

• Don't Let Yourself Fall Victim - By Moin Uddin

• Portraits of a Young Artist in Istanbul - By Gene Parola

• Water Tales and Bedtime Stories - By Linda Murphy Marshall

• “In Love and In God We Trust,” A Psalm and Anthem for LGBTQ+ Rights - By Ngoc Nguyen

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Portraits of a Young Artist in Istanbul - By Gene Parola

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Showcase - Week of: 6/19-25/21

New Submissions:

• Addressing Racism in Myself Before Talking to My Kids - By Kathleen Kempert

• To Write Where The Words Take You - By Nate McCall

• Elegiac Memories of Dear Mother - By Ngoc Nguyen

• The Tour Of Unexplored Fear - By Moin Uddin

• Courageous Women - By Anita G. Gorman

• The Courage Of A Rose - By Marc OBrien

• Controlled Demolition - By Tracey Ross

• Stick to Driving a Truck - By Pete Black

• Doggone Deviltry - By Ken Gosse

• The Mary White - By Gillie Bowen

• Facing Fear - By Brenda Arledge

• 1929 - By DC Diamondopolous

• Jeanne D' Arc - By K L. Shipley

• The Exit - By Shih-Fang Wang

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Controlled Demolition - By Tracey Ross

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Showcase - Week of: 6/12-18/21

New Submissions:

• The O.G. - By Chris Platt

• Muffled - By Tracey Ross

• Fully Realized - By Mike Turner

• The Ventilator - By Jack Bristow

• The Plunge - By Sushant Thapa

• Too Young - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Dear Students - By Jamie Wendt

• Introspection - By James Geehring

• Time and Man - By Monalisa Parida

• Recipe For A Virus - By Denise Martin

• All the Lonely People - By K. L. Shipley

• Hearing the Truth - By Brenda Arledge

• Mental Masturbation - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Miseries Of Unequal Sides - By Moin Uddin

• The Mysterious Limousine - By Anita G. Gorman

• Every Sea Has Its Shore - By Chitra Gopalakrishnan

• Along Came Rose, a Maid So Fragile and Young - By Ngoc Nguyen

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• All the Lonely People - By K. L. Shipley

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Showcase - Week of: 6/5-11/21

New Submissions:

• Musings on Poetic Rhythm, Meter, and Measure - By Ngoc Nguyen

• My Brain Is Being Drained By The Plumber - By Florence Mauchant

• Lunch with Paul #3 Santa Fe Basque Hotel - By Stephen Barile

• The Madness of George King - By David Patton

• Heidi and Happiness - By Anita G. Gorman

• The Last Man in the Water - By Pete Black

• Last Dream of Night - By Monalisa Parida

• Tea is Turning Cold - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Contrast - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• This I have Overheard - By Bungler Bill

• Goethe's Little Novel - By K. L. Shipley

• Wings Of Your Desire - By Moin Uddin

• Tomorrow, Realized - By Mike Turner

• Moon Is A She - By Tanya Sachdeva

• My Uncle Eric - By Ken Gosse

• Emptiness - By Moin Uddin

• Sky Diving - By Lynn White

• Seero - By John Baldwin

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Sky Diving - By Lynn White

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Showcase - Week of: 5/29-6/4/21

New Submissions:

• Dear Beamish Boy (a Loving Spiral) - By Ken Gosse

• The World Around - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

• She was from Chernobyl - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Dancing in the Rain - By Manisha Sultaniya

• Man, Nature and Energy - By Muskan Antil

• Solitary Thinker - By Monalisa Parida

• The Light Beyond - By K. L. Shipley

• Wake Up Alarm - By Ranjit Kulkarni

• They Will Return - By Dee Allen.

• Black Gold - By Mike Turner

• Co-op - By Cristina Collazo

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Wake Up Alarm - By Ranjit Kulkarni

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Showcase - Week of: 5/22-28/21

New Submissions:

• A Wish - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Primordial - By K. L. Shipley

• Disclosed - By Ellen Bennett

• Common Law - By Tracey Ross

• Life Goes On - By Sushant Thapa

• When Pigs Fly - By Mark Delaware

• My Little Green Truck - By Jill Clark

• The Coach Party - By Richard Prime

• A Quality Airing Out - By Marc OBrien

• I Love My Odisha - By Monalisa Parida

• Petri Dish Beneath a Sepia Sun - By Ken Gosse

• Unfathomable Devastation - By Brenda Arledge

• Renewing a Writer's License - By Anita G. Gorman

• My Image, My Surrounding - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Unfathomable Devastation - By Brenda Arledge

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Showcase - Week of: 5/15-21/21

New Submissions:

• Ma'am; That Unexpected Word - By Brenda Arledge

• Grandma and the Threesome - By Anita G. Gorman

• The Redemption of Benny Gantz - By K. L. Shipley

• What The Neighbors Knew - By Tom Kastanotis

• Mirror of Conflict - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• The Lady Behind the Bridge - By Pete Black

• Growing Old - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• Lying About the Truth - By Pam Munter

• Bamboos Sing - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Mystery of Life - By Monalisa Parida

• Cropped - By Laura Anella Johnson

• Repentance - By Nathan Perrin

• I’m Only 10 - By Kshipra Narain

• The Dog Trial - By Chris Platt

• Power - By Sushant Thapa

• "The Vest" - Fred Miller

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• What The Neighbors Knew - By Tom Kastanotis

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Showcase - Week of: 5/8-14/21

New Submissions:

• Pah! - By K. L. Shipley

• Moving Target - By Chris Platt

• Time to Ponder - By Ken Gosse

• Hypothermia - By John Tavares

• Unsocial Media - By Amanda Steel

• Smoke and Mirrors - By Tracey Ross

• Aging At Work - By Shih-Fang Wang

• The Cane Caper - By Anita G. Gorman

• Pleasure and Pain - By Monalisa Parida

• Accepting His Fate - By Brenda Arledge

• Aging - In Four Stanzas - By Mike Turner

• Forgetting To Cry - By George Anderson

• Social Media’s Influence - By Katrenia Busch

• Why choose hate when you can love? - By Ritika Singh

• I've Stopped Running for Student Council President - By John Johnson

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Unsocial Media - By Amanda Steel

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Showcase - Week of: 5/1-7/21

New Submissions:

• Diaries of a Primary Researcher Part 1 - By Bushra Tughar

• Social Media - Friend or Foe? - By Brenda Arledge

• How To Ruin Facebook Posts - By Will Nuessle

• Technology Director - By Stefanie Fair-King

• The Original Caffé Midí - By Stephen Barile

• The Looking-Glass - By Jen Mierisch

• Washing The Dishes - By Dan Brook

• Gender Confusion - By Tracey Ross

• Cold Poems - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Network - By Kathryn Sadakierski

• That One Post - By Sarah Bricault

• Scott Free - By Anita G. Gorman

• The Story - By K. L. Shipley

• Cupid - By Monalisa Parida

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Network - By Kathryn Sadakierski

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Showcase - Week of: 4/24-30/21

New Submissions:

• Craft - By Tracey Ross

• (Whispers) - By Ken Gosse

• On Aging - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Long Winter's Nap - By B Hazy

• Why We Post - By Dorothy Rice

• His Secret - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Pure Affection - By Monalisa Parida

• Lunch with Paul - By Stephen Barile

• Children of Screens - By Sinéad Mears

• Song of No Significance - By Mike Turner

• He's Not On Social Media - By Brenda Arledge

• What Do You Worship? - By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Children of Screens - By Sinéad Mears

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Showcase - Week of: 4/17-23/21

New Submissions:

• ...Theme in “Women have loved...” - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Two Dollar Talisman - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• Will Good Times Come Again? - By Mike Turner

• Her Faith In Him Is Gone - By Brenda Arledge

• I Can't Save You - By Leah Holbrook Sackett

• Tear Drop Inn - By Michael Lee Johnson

• Unclassified Past - By Monalisa Parida

• Ingrid Alone - By Anita G. Gorman

• Fragment 2019 - By Dee Allen.

• Brain Delay - By Tracey Ross

• Sleep - By Kedar Kulkarni

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• I Can't Save You - By Leah Holbrook Sackett

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Showcase - Week of: 4/10-16/21

New Submissions:

• Women Always Leave Me - By Judge Burdon

• Fugitive Fragments Part Two - By Ngoc Nguyen

• The Lost Connection - By Ken Gosse

• Faithfully Answering The Dinner Bell - By Marc OBrien

• Frozen Faith - By Deepika Singj

• Despair - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Out to Pasture - By Niall Crowley

• Cycles - By James Geehring

• We Cling to Realities - By Mike Turner

• Unspoken Words - By Monalisa Parida

• Elegy of the Gidat - By Eme Savage

• Risky Behavior - By Tracey Ross

• Losing Faith - By Brenda Arledge

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• The Lost Connection - By Ken Gosse

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Showcase - Week of: 4/3-9/21

New Submissions:

• Muriel Calls the Neighbor - By Anita G. Gorman

• Someone Else's Is Working Hard - By Moin Uddin

• Corona, You Are Boring Me! - By Brenda Arledge

• No Lunch With Lenny - By Judge Burdon

• The Price of Solitude - By Mike Turner

• Made For Each Other - By Monalisa Parida

• Broken Hearted on a Royal Throne - By Ken Gosse

• Trying To Write - By Marco Stein

• Is This What It's Like? - By Catherine White

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Muriel Calls the Neighbor - By Anita G. Gorman

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Showcase - Week of: 3/27-4/2/21

New Submissions:

• The Emperor Dances - By Ken Gosse

• Will We Win the Race - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Cheers to Cherry Blossoms - By Nilofar Shidmehr

• Upward Climb - By Tracey Ross

• The Conduit Chapter 2 - By Donte-highwater

• Prove Your Worth - By Moin Uddin

• Covid-19 Detour - By Brenda Arledge

• Childish Thoughts - By James Geehring

• It Don't Come Easy - By Chris Platt

• Dead Leaves Do Not Bring Joy - By Komla.says.alot

• The Border Land Farm - By Marc OBrien

• Nightshade - By Candace Meredith

• In Ruins - By Rixelle S.

• Lockdown - By Iolanda Leotta

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Childish Thoughts - By James Geehring

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Showcase - Week of: 3/20-26/21

New Submissions:

• The Gargoyle Yawns - By Judge Santiago Burdon

• The Conduit - By Donte-highwater

• The Marvel of Nature - By Ngoc Nguyen

• Splendid Isolation - By Mike Turner

• Brad and Janet - By Karen Lethlean

• Heartbeat - By Moin Uddin

• A Letter To Paradise - By Monalisa Parida

• Oh Dear - By Honest Hypocrite

• Somewhere - By Shih-Fang Wang

• The Fire - By James Geehring

• Visions for the Mind - By Nancy Lou Henderson

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Splendid Isolation - By Mike Turner

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Showcase - Week of: 3/13-19/21

New Submissions:

• Full Circle - By Nancy Lou Henderson

• Mother's Love - By Isioma Jemimah Okonicha

• Silly - By Jane Dove

• The League of Helmets - By Jon Moray

• The Dream Of Equality - By Maid Corbic

• You Are the Every Reason - By Monalisa Parida

• Hope Is Alive - By Moin Uddin

• Dining Table - By Tamanna Malik

• Equality - By Clinton Siegle

• Ego Ruined - By Deepshikha Subedi

• Virus's Vindication - By Shih-Fang Wang

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Dining Table - By Tamanna Malik

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Showcase - Week of: 3/6-12/21

New Submissions:

• Wrong Turn - By James Geehring

• California Desert Heart - By Ashley Nave

• The Miserables - By Sandeep Kattel

• Still Life with a Burger - By Jessika Jenvieve

• Wrote For Luck - By Chris Platt

• It's Okay To Lose Hope - By Moin Uddin

• Love Without Wings - By Shih-Fang Wang

• Fairytales In My Dream - By Monalisa Parida

• Generation Snowflake - By C.M.C Martin

• Portent of a Coming Colossus - By Ken Gosse

• Art and Soul - By Sushant Thapa

• Equality - By Mike Turner

• Discredited - By Tracey Ross

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Generation Snowflake - By C.M.C Martin

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Showcase - Week of: 2/27-3/5/21

New Submissions:

• A Type of Coincidence - By Chris Platt

• The Day Before Winter - By Lee Dunn

• Disorder: They Said - By Priyangwada Perera

• Mindless Robot - By James Patrick

• Fighting Myself - By Karen Lethlean

• Old Enough - By Tracey Ross

• Fulfillment - By Sushant Thapa

• A Carefree Life - By Monalisa Parida

• Mud In My Bed - By Fiona M Jones

• Crush - By Elizabeth Jaeger

• Explore Wild Imaginations - By Moin Uddin

• Athena - By Otto Grey

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Favorite Submission of The Week:

• Fighting Myself - By Karen Lethlean

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