by David Frankel As the First World War passes out of living memory, its centenary gives us the opportunity to commemorate the loss of life, but also to examine what we commemorate, and how we choose to do it. TheContinue Reading
If I’m gonna be alone, then let it be with you. That is how I will probably forever feel about him. He left me. He still kills me over and over again. He takes my heart, and he rips it out, he tearsContinue Reading
Paul Brookes SEVEN POEMS My Scarylife Scaryborn to this world this scaryearth I scarylearned in school, met a lass who said she was scaryready to be scarywed, so we scarymarried after three months of scarycourting She scarybore our first kid afterContinue Reading
Cindy Letic I lie. A lot. And I mean, like, a LOT! To whom? No, it’s not an endless list (don’t search your name, this isn’t a confession.) Most people I encounter, will not fall prey to my dishonesty. Most people getContinue Reading
by Kevin Acott Tryon, NC. The sun was shining. The air was sharp and still. The house was sad, shaming, uplifting, bent and rusted and nailed-up with need, pride,lies and truths: Its foundations new, yet so, so old. The boys on the porchContinue Reading
C. Duhnne Thoughts: catalogued packed into boxes neatly assembled in pecking order from hurts to breathe to hurts but I can deal; stuffed into the back in descending order and locked away to collect interest. Interest rates waver between those who ask and thoseContinue Reading