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A Short History Of Modernist Painting

by Chris Okum, posted 4 hours ago 1414 views00 comments00 favs

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The Mountain

by Erika Byrne-Ludwig, posted 8 hours ago 2626 views00 comments00 favs

Quite out of nowhere, my grandfather appeared to me, smoking his pipe and sipping his gentian liqueur. With myself drawing an edelweiss, sitting beside him, my hands and my heart warming themselves at the stove, my feet in large lamb fur-lined boots. Born in the mountain,…

One Drink

by Tim G. Young, posted 4 days ago 6060 views55 comments22 favs

After the fourth I lost count.

The Impression

by Darryl Price, posted Feb 09, 2025 8585 views11 comment11 fav

It's been a long story, people stare. It's been a strange and sad tale, people laugh. It's all just as good as the first time, until people hide their grief inside seasons with curtains drawn. The dreams come back on line, people change and…

Off The Cuff

by Adam Sifre, posted Feb 09, 2025 7676 views22 comments22 favs

Sometimes words are carved in stone, but you won't find these in this poem

Hotel Venice and the Bohemian Blue

by C.F. Pierce, posted Feb 08, 2025 9797 views11 comment11 fav

“Time to check out,” I tell myself, looking at sailboats and surfers from the open window of my hotel room. I inhale minty incense and gaze down on a dark-skinned woman in a sombrero beneath towering palm trees. Laid out before her on a folding table ar

thing

by Valerie Henderson, posted Feb 05, 2025 105105 views44 comments22 favs

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The Maze

by Lorenzo Baehne, posted Feb 02, 2025 126126 views00 comments00 favs

The man with the truncheon emerged at the monorail car's forward connecting doorway. One moment the space was vacant, a faux metal canvas for the dazzling sunlight streaming through a grime-encrusted window. When next Theseus Harrow looked up from his seat the dark-suited…

Unconditional Unbroken

by Michael Tusa, posted Feb 01, 2025 165165 views11 comment11 fav

It's house has seen every day and every night From its windows stars are born and die

Living In A Novel

by John Olson, posted Jan 27, 2025 167167 views22 comments22 favs

I walked into a novel and sat down on a rock. The language was distressed and full of cyclones and swells. I could smell embalming fluid and folklore. Everywhere I went there were doorknobs, escalators, and clocks. Objects of all genre overflowing with prose. I stood at …

The Experience

by Aline Carriere, posted Jan 18, 2025 218218 views33 comments22 favs

I decided this time I’m going right to the end.

Repetitions

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Jan 18, 2025 220220 views44 comments44 favs

The couple sit at an outside table at McDonalds.

I Said God Damn

by Peter Erich, posted Jan 15, 2025 197197 views33 comments33 favs

the space between two antelopes is a canyon,

Second Wave, 1944 (with notes)

by David Ackley, posted Jan 03, 2025 176176 views55 comments33 favs

Here were men trying their best to kill other men....

At Ho'okipa Point

by Gary Percesepe, posted Dec 07, 2024 326326 views88 comments44 favs

She came with questions. / How much longer can we ignore the /turtles? This was last night./ I hadn’t seen her for years.

To Swallow Us Whole

by James Claffey, posted Dec 04, 2024 325325 views66 comments66 favs

The east wind probes through the eaves, pushing at the walls, as though it wants to drag us out into the cold, to swallow us whole.

The Second Extinction of Chocolate

by strannikov, posted Dec 01, 2024 392392 views55 comments22 favs

Cacao production had always been a tenuous enterprise insofar as commercial cacao tree cultivation had always been limited roughly to the land zones within twenty degrees of the equator north and south.



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