Season’s Wishes
/Let us take Season’s wishes
Of love, joy and peace
And through each our actions
Give Christmas new …
By Mike Turner
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A Winged Wish
/A wish—
a tender sigh
lingering in the languid breeze
of my yearning thoughts…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreExit Stage Left
/Renowned theatre director Toby Armitage arrived at the play-house just before nine o’clock in the morning. He was handed a cup of coffee and shown through to the auditorium. He removed his silk scarf and found a seat in the middle of the aisle…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreIn The Shadows
/In the shadows of every shade
An unseen plaque with the name
Of a thoughtful sower…
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreHope Replete
/Stars fall from the heavens
Meteors ‘cross night skies
Though they be strewn
‘Cross battles’…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreLife Waves Buh-bye
/Death comes in threes. On March 3, 2023, inside Boston’s John P. Bedlow Memorial Hospital, the flatlined trifecta included an atheist, a Muslim, and a…
By CraigE
Read MoreThe Hollow’s Head Man
/A Grim Start for the Reaper
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… an infant he nursed at the breast
of a harpy who’s fierce, feathered chest
seethed venom most toxic.
It’s not paradoxic…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreDeep Depression
/Depression leaves you feeling…
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…morning, I woke up feeling worthless.
My self-confidence cowering in a deep valley.
I was drowning in a deep depression.
What caused me to hide in this horrific …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreCome What May
/…away frantically, lost in the story, completing the last line in his notebook. He grabbed a fresh notepad and, pushed the sleeves of his dressing gown up, and continued writing the story he was currently working on. Other writers preferred a desk, but he found the comfort of the living room sofa was the best place to…
By Chris Platt
Read MoreHello, Epicurus!
/… am not exactly happy, but puzzled—like a garden when the sun begins melting its snow too quickly, uncertain how it will appear to its…
By Fadi Abu-Deeb
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