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A Shooting Pain

by Darryl Price, posted 2 days ago 6363 views00 comments00 favs

Some things are like a long gone shooting pain. Some people are remembered like a flickering candle snapping in a faraway window. Some things are gone, but they just won't fade away. Some people are still alive only in lonely photographs,…

Owner's Lament

by Chris Okum, posted 2 days ago 6868 views33 comments33 favs

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The Coming of Doctor Congo (Acts 1 & 2)

by Lorenzo Baehne, posted Feb 28, 2026 102102 views22 comments11 fav

1. The Doctor Sudan, 1936 The trap was sprung! The pair of would-be plunderers hung feet-over-head in a robust net of tightly woven rope, arms and legs entangled, alarm issuing like a Klaxon from…

Unintended Dispatch

by Eustacia Adams, posted Feb 28, 2026 100100 views22 comments11 fav

Other therapists had their own names for it: death by mishap, inadvertent fatal impact, unintended loss of life. These were all very polite ways of describing what happens when one person, mistakenly and without malice, kills another.

Bronwen, Painter of Miccasukee Street

by Tantra Bensko, posted Feb 26, 2026 123123 views22 comments22 favs

Walking in the just-thereness of afternoon, Scrubbed out by the Tallahassee sun, Past the same Shocking banana trees that have been The most dramatic occurrences all year Since her move from the north, She thinks we must stop…

nighthawk shadows

by James Claffey, posted Feb 23, 2026 8383 views55 comments44 favs

The nighthawk captures my imagination, with its mottled gray wing with flashes of white, like a fluttering x-ray image in flight, it has me holding my breath, waiting for it to reappear.

Sanctuary

by Joanne Jagoda, posted Jan 29, 2026 154154 views55 comments55 favs

until the last wisps started their heartless descent admitted by default to this curious flock a sorority I never wanted to join the red poison drips relentless

At her Bedside

by Erika Byrne-Ludwig, posted Jan 15, 2026 220220 views77 comments55 favs

He turned off the light. His wife was breathing slowly. At her bedside, he spoke of her friends the roses, of the pretty carnation brooch he had pinned to her silk scarf, of the alluring hat which fitted her so well. Small souvenirs, simple and vivid, the heavy night…

A Regime With No King

by Amanda Harris, posted Dec 10, 2025 396396 views55 comments33 favs

Blank space / governs the minds of small children

Bowling With Diane Keaton

by Collin Kelley, posted Dec 07, 2025 338338 views44 comments44 favs

Friday night, 80s halcyon,a memory of October bowling.The suburban lanes loudwith kids and kinetic releaseof balls slamming on maple.I have no footwork, no senseof release, fingers sweatyin the grips, resin droppingwith a hollow boomfollowed by derision from more adept…

Black and White

by Paul de Denus, posted Nov 16, 2025 341341 views33 comments33 favs

Chris and I have an understanding. We've been playing cops and robbers all morning, running around and stirring up shit.

the sensual tactility of tall buildings

by eamon byrne, posted Oct 31, 2025 450450 views66 comments22 favs

There's a nice line in M. Tafuri's essay “Architecture and Cities in the United States 1870-1910” concerning the relationship between land values and building costs:“… whereas the simple parceling-up of surface lots is the product of an elementary…

Barred caller

by David Ackley, posted Oct 30, 2025 310310 views33 comments11 fav

overheard

Mrs. Penfield

by Carl Santoro, posted Oct 13, 2025 571571 views22 comments22 favs

Now her right breast was annoying her.

Interview with a Jesus Lizard

by Ed Higgins, posted Oct 10, 2025 397397 views11 comment11 fav

Interviewer: So, you walk on water, right? How is that possible? Jesus Lizard: Well, I only run on water, and upright on my hind legs. Haha, if I tried just walking on water I’d sink quicker than St. Peter!

Punchlines of a cosmic joke

by strannikov, posted Sep 26, 2025 924924 views33 comments00 favs

Creating a world in which no one believes . . . killing a world in which no one could believe.

The Big LARP

by stephen hastings-king, posted Sep 18, 2025 11851185 views44 comments22 favs

The ambient sound wheezes on.



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  4. The repetitions underline the obsession, insistent, demanding assent, the only route to relief. What's unnerving about this piece is how it unveils a certain character type, all too prevalent, who...
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  6. Not a word wasted. Interesting take on desire and obsession. I love the stream of words, like the obsession itself, endless, shocking and mind numbing.
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