João Cerqueira/Fiction

João Cerqueira/Fiction

 Photo by danfador (Pixabay) *     “For the Love of Nature”   An excerpt from The Second Coming of Jesus, by João Cerqueira   This excerpt, “For the Love of Nature,”  is from the novel  The second coming of Jesus,...

Miriam O’Neal/Poetry

  One Reading of the Contraband of the Hoopoe     requires a suspension of disbelief, new, unpredictable logic, journeys, tones of bells, strings, and drums, bodies frozen, bodies in motion, many birds, always the hoopoe   sometimes the editorial...

Cheyenne Dorsagno/Poetry

People I Knew   1   When I first met you, your shirt was striped – fat purple, thin black, medium pink, white too! No pattern, varying thicknesses. “I like your shirt,” I said. That was a lie.   You said there was a dead body buried in your front yard...
Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by 916237 (Pixabay) * * A GOOD DECISION   by Tonya K. Dale     I know why the dog next door cries at night.   He’s the black-and-white mutt, the shaggy prisoner of a fenced-in portico…four feet by four feet. Cement floor.   No one is...

Peter Krok/Poetry

    Looking For His Mind     How many times did he tell himself, “This too shall pass?” How many times did he fall into darkness where his glasses did no good? He keeps falling, heavy with questions. The Master asks, “Where are...