By Kimberly Kaufman In the shadowy, damp cities of our eon no Martian parent will guilt their children into eating their slimy green protein crumbles with stories of the starving Children of Earth As the dust storms rage above no Martian child will flick internal game consoles, the giant screens their only chance to marvel [...]
By Otis Fuqua The moon is not out. Deborah is not in bed. A stranger’s silhouette is not rolling toward her like a panther. “Mish Deborah?” a child’s voice asks—Ricardo, at the front of the classroom. The esses catch on his braces. There is no face like a saber-tooth tiger. An eely stripe of stubble [...]
By Gemma Cooper-Novack Jeff Bezos wrote a capitalist haiku and we all live in it Gemma Cooper-Novack’s debut poetry collection We Might As Well Be Underwater, a finalist for the Central New York Book Award, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2017. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in more than twenty journals, including [...]
By Lou Ella Hickman what’s happening with the boys our prayers & thoughts bullied? bang, bang you’re dead a moment of silence easy access? what’s happening with the boys new laws won’t help video games? bang, bang you’re dead our prayers & thoughts absent fathers? what’s happening with the boys a moment of silence movies, [...]
