Stories tagged poetry

Due to the volume of submissions

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Somebody pushed the automatic fuck-you button today, not the due-to-the-volume-of-submissions-we-receive button, nor the it-does-not-fit-our-editorial-needs button;

Indirectly Found Jesus

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had half my head shaved like I lost a bet.

Salem the Dead

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My father's cousin is Salem the Dead. Famed, an infant Lazarus of Libya, he was brought lifeless from the womb, yet awoke to the chill of a mortuary slab.

Green Flash At Sunset

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front of the postcard is a campfire with the word ‘Utopia’ written in comic sans

November 6th

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Need not remember, the 6th of November.

On the Menu: Gin & Tonic

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First, hold a lime in your hand; wrap your fingers around it and pretend it’s something else

Fireballs and such

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after that night they were never / quite right / again.

My Relationship With Reading

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What if I said;I never liked actually reading - the black words on white paper straining my eyes flying through my mind forming sentences I struggle to make sense of before the next Capital Letter arrives before I eventually slam the book shut veins in my brain…

Murder—My Legacy

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After the box was in the ground, we dumped the soil on top and patted it down tightly in case the bird came back to life and haunted us.

Brand New Devotion

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As razor toothed gravediggers darken soil beneath iron...

Everything I Need To Know About Aging I Learned From Lilikoi

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Behold! Passion fruit!Aureolin sun condensedRolls off palm and tongue.Spurn taut rounded skinWait for wrinklesRipeness revealed, resplendent —The pinnacle of worth.

First there was an eruption

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First there was an eruption. Which is where it all began. Spewing ash clouds miles up and miles wide. It made the non-believers stroke their chins somewhat. Richard Quest-Means-Business was suddenly a volcanologist.

Help Us Locate Ourselves

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dove from the trenches, double-check

Sweetheart with a .45

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come find me in high July come find me and brag about frost come be my friend at the end of the map come burn this church come melt your silver cross come cat fish a condom out my dresser drawer come alone, cum under a gold dust moon come throw another shadow on…

Missed Explanations of the Way

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wandering edge, then