Stories tagged protest

We Don't Need a Guitar Man

13761376 views55 comments22 favs

The courtroom smelled a lot like mold and it was hot as you could imagine. I sweated through my shirt and wondered if he wasn’t dying under his robe. He looked down at me from his bench and I just knew he was going to call me a commie and sentence me to l

For the Women

143143 views88 comments44 favs

Near Peshawar, a sister has transgressed. Her purple thumb, whipsawn, collects the dust.

Momma and Me

13171317 views77 comments66 favs

On Saturdays, we pull out big white poster boards, magic markers, and draw babies.

The New World Act

18981898 views22 comments11 fav

It was said that in order to decrease population— and thus poverty, crime and the growing uneducated workforce in Etherage, New World— they needed to limit, if not abolish, the Social Reform Act of 2013 that provided government assistance and aid to famil

Out of no way, way

7474 views1010 comments88 favs

(puppet dragons in/ the light),/ paper tigers in/ the dark.

Optimum Condition

857857 views00 comments00 favs

I have hate and it is black not midnight, crisp fresh clear. Unadulterated. It is dirty, poor, gritty solid rough like unripe stone fruit. A peach, mealy and dry. The killing, effete, endures. Silent, my repugnance, sick, eats…

Elegy For the Old Republic

113113 views77 comments11 fav

You call the shit in this paper news? ‘Dog Accidentally Shoots Man With His Own Gun, Swedish Man Bursts Into Flames on Train Platform, The Truth About Elvis’s Hidden Extraterrestrial Daughter.’ Seriously? Enough about Elvis already.

Often I think on who pulls the strings,

16751675 views77 comments66 favs

In a plush leather chair, / high up a shiny skyscraper,

Benefit Tonight

6666 views00 comments00 favs

(Night. Two police officers stand at the bottom of the steps of a metropolitan museum, checking tickets. Spotlights sweep the sky; only a few stars are visible through the ambient glow of the city. A banner hanging on the front of the building reads: BENEFIT…

Elegy For the Old Republic

12821282 views33 comments22 favs

You call the shit in this paper news? ‘Dog Accidentally Shoots Man With His Own Gun, Swedish Man Bursts Into Flames on Train Platform, The Truth About Elvis's Hidden Extraterrestrial Daughter.' Seriously? Enough about Elvis already.

A Sonnet for Anna

15711571 views3030 comments2020 favs

Toting a sawed-off shotgun at the altar