The Crows of the Fermi Bubbles,love to drop sticks into blue wells of mascara and blind justice, and to crack jokes from the horse chestnuts,passing them along from branch to branch to branchunder a… Continue reading
SCENE:Stayville, a water front area by the Great South Bay.There is a bench, a tree and a sign with an arrow that says “FERRIES”. The tree canbe made of cardboard and should look… Continue reading
Old Jim surveyed the crab through the porthole opening of the plastic bag. It was wriggling and writhing, as if freshly electrocuted. It was brown and speckled and shiny and hard. He was… Continue reading
CHARACTERS: JOHNNY high strung Puerto Rican conga drum enthusiast, late 50s,CHARLIE easy-going Afro-American conga drummer, 60sTHE KID strait-laced, young Afro-American conga drummer, music school graduate, early 20s SETTING: The waiting room outside a… Continue reading
When I began I wrote in foursin beats in lines, stanzaswith alternating cadenceslike my hip-hop gangsta heroes, But I rhymed on the rich quiet feelunder a strand of hemlocks midon the mountain’s westerly… Continue reading
Setting: The foyer of an American home. The not too distant past or future. Characters: Brian – a injured soldier, recently home from the hospital and rehab.. Eva – his mother (BRIAN, scarred,… Continue reading
*** Thomas Riesner is self-taught artist and has been painting since 1990. He showcases an an expressive and intuitive painting style that portrays an atmosphere of originality and spontaneity. http://www.thomasriesner1.wordpress.com
***Michelle Li enjoys writing. She has been recognized by Scholastic Art and Writing, The Waltham Forest Poetry Contest, and published or forthcoming in Idle Ink, The Incandescent Review, and Lumina Journal among others.… Continue reading
Cast of Characters NATASHA – Middle-aged BIPOC woman, curator of antique shop.In command of all situations, insightful; never asksquestions, always makes statement.LOOMIS – A Bill Gates type software billionaire. A dorkyguy, bad dresser.… Continue reading
She wants to be strong, tough, brave, admired,but also to be beautiful, and then be woundedin some most noble and non-disfiguring mannerso that she can give up being strong and bravewhile remaining just… Continue reading
***Bill Wolak has just published his eighteenth book of poetry entitled All the Wind’s Unfinished Kisses with Ekstasis Editions. His collages and photographs have appeared as cover art for such magazines as Phoebe,… Continue reading
National Science Foundation search for “uterus” Sorry,no results found for ‘uterus’.Try enteringfewer or moregeneral search terms. National Science Foundation search for “pregnancy” Laws and Regulations that GovernEEO and Civil Rights; Intimate-partner domestic violence… Continue reading
Opening Night, 8:00 a.m. Darren’s left ear buzzes from a restless sleep. Dreams intertwine with scenes of imagined mishaps from Nutcrackers past. Throughout the night, he’d awakened startled: the orchestra signaling the rise… Continue reading
CHARACTER: Katya – 131 years old, a widower SETTING: Katya’s house in Australia TIME: 2043 AUTHOR’S NOTE: The play requires only one stool on stage. Katya is perched on a stool, drinking Fosters… Continue reading
each stem tilts like eyelashes,dipped in snow like mascara,positioned against the powderedlandscape, a marker for winter and how many blobs of white and pinkmust grace our radars, how many dayswill we start the… Continue reading
CAST OF CHARACTERSMARGOT: 20s – 40s, SHE is on edge, but initially glad to be home.TED: A few years older than his sister MARGOT, with a reassuring, authoritative manner.MOM: SHE is 20 –… Continue reading
I’m sick of my left arm,its joints loose, creaky,like the rusted chainsthat hold a broken swingon the porch of a long-abandoned house, cunningdoll on the seat, extremitiesjammed between the slats. Each electrode inserted,wiggled… Continue reading
home is an untidy string ↭ you string me along as you take on the shape of another ↭ if you insert your name here, I can say ↭ you are a hall… Continue reading
Five years of abnormal is enough to stage an exhibit.The parchment is precise: “Be it known that you are peculiar.” Collect five years of these royaldecrees, and you have a library of concern,… Continue reading
This seems an even harder loneliness now,and doubled, for each to hear its frequency but never (or so all sensors say so far) to findthe only other creature in the World Ocean capable… Continue reading
I returned to Grudgetown and met my sister, two years my senior, still a vision of stunning beauty, like a woman in her fresh twenties. Time has been kind to you, I remarked,… Continue reading
CAST OF CHARACTERS ELLEN BLUMENTHAL HILL Foggy blonde mid-forties. A German-Jewish political science professor, currently employed by the International Refugees Organization. PAT HIGHSMITH Sullen sharp thirty-one. A native Texan who pioneered psychological thriller… Continue reading
***Aleena Sharif is a Pakistani artist who works with the nude female figure. Her works are centered around the idea of confidence and women taking up space unapologetically. She works to normalize radical… Continue reading
We open our mouths to gulpair with avaricious breath,the way dogs lap upwater after a run.Instead, snowflakes slip silentlyonto tongues, filling us with cold and calm. But peacewill not stay. Forced to prioritizebetter… Continue reading
It’s about 7 a.m. as I step outside of our hotel room on Theresianumgasse, sunrise overVienna a weak smear spilling luminous ashes behind a screen of low dense clouds. It’s one ofthose windless… Continue reading
CHARACTERS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, woman in her late twenties, early thirties, dressed in formalbusiness wear.CIA DIRECTOR, middle-aged man in his late forties, early fifties, dressed in formal businesswear.PRESIDENT, male, middle-aged or slightly elderly, dressed… Continue reading
FERVENT AGNOSTIC When I want to believe there is a God,I think of (bad/good) karma I possessand incidents both resonant and oddthat felt like He was out to curse, or blessme personally. Sure,… Continue reading
In the ancient Chinese province of Kain-Du, royal officers supervised peasants who boiled brine in large pans until a gray residue remained. They molded the paste into cakes and dried them on hot… Continue reading
Cast of Characters: EMILIA “LIA” LANIER: 25-39. A woman writer who penned beloved comedies and dramas under the assumed name (and identity) of William Shakespeare. NARRATOR: 40-65. A boisterous, troubadour-like male figment of… Continue reading