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Time Off

Remember the year you sat out the orbit around the sun? The year you hovered in space and all you wanted was to watch the planet

Poetry

William Goulet

Dec 9, 20251 min read

Prom Villanelle

I did it for her. She never got the chance to go, becoming a mother so young

Poetry

Shontay Luna

Dec 9, 20251 min read

Winter Excursion

Ice clacking branches in moonlit gusts deem this trudge conceivably lethal, but dim echoes of its crunching

Poetry

William Goulet

Dec 9, 20251 min read

Golden Shovel

I’ve spent a lifetime, waiting to hold my breath. Heart beating fast at the onset of conflict. Running to...

Poetry

Shontay Luna

Dec 9, 20251 min read

Ladder Hours

Fifteen minutes till dismissal and I am on the top rung that says do not stand here because the wind has caught the banner over the playground

Micro Fiction

Brandon Mcneice

Dec 9, 20252 min read

Still Following

By Matthew Minard It was early. The living room still dark except for the blue glow of the T.V., the heater wasn’t on yet. My dad in his recliner, controller in hand. Skyrim already running. A blanket pulled over my shoulders. The broken controller passed down to me. He shifted to sit on the floor with me. The hum of the Xbox 360, the click of his buttons, mine clicking too though nothing moved on screen. He stepped into a dungeon. I imagined I was the Scamp behind him, summ

Micro Fiction

Matthew Minard

Dec 9, 20252 min read

Micro Non-Fiction

Coming Out

I first learned that my father was the Messiah in 1989, just days before my 20th birthday. The two of us were in a coffee shop, not far from Tel Aviv University, where he was a professor of statistics and I, a second-year student of philosophy.

Micro Non-Fiction

Gil Hochberg

Nov 9, 20254 min read

Micro Non-Fiction

Video Poetry

Transparency

By Dawn Bratton Dawn Bratton lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she writes poetry and prose orbiting the image of eyes and theme of perception. During 2021 - 2023 she served as secretary and vice president on the board of directors for WordSwell ( wordswelljournal.org ). In 2023, she co-founded Moon Blossom Collective, an arts and wellbeing collective ( moonblossomcollective.org ). In 2025 she founded Karma for supporting the literary and arts communities ( karmafinan

Video Poetry

Dawn Bratton

Dec 9, 20251 min read

Polaroids Pinned to an Apple Tree

By Christine Sloan Stoddard Christine Stoddard is a multimedia creator and artist named one of Brooklyn Magazine’s Top 50 Most Fascinating People and Style Weekly’s Top 40 Under 40 of Richmond, VA. She co-hosts the comedy TV show “Don’t Mind If I Don’t” with Aaron Gold, and runs the YouTube channel Stoddard Says via her production company, Quail Bell. Her artwork, fiction, and poetry have been featured in the Queens Botanical Garden, the Portland Review, Ms. Magazine, So to S

Video Poetry

Christine Sloan Stoddard

Dec 9, 20251 min read