Genocide Joe is strutting his stuff getting ready to deliver for Christmas. Santa came early to the north, as he does and now his sack’s laden and he’s moving south playing toy soldiers with real missiles and bombs. For children alone and families fleeing terror the bombs make a carpet of what once were homes.Continue reading “The Killing Holiday – Lynn White”
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The Killing Holiday – Candice L. Daquin
they’re devouring her patient, psychiatrist, fisher, weaver thimble, knot, pendant, wood cutter they’re devouring her she lets them that’s the bargain struck sulfur and a bright red color ringing her doorbell with velvet glove through the peephole she’s wearing a wig over her sanity it lifts with heavy winds exposing innards, her dirty blend ofContinue reading “The Killing Holiday – Candice L. Daquin”
Some Words Never Sleep – Dave Williams
In those summers, my brother and I slept above the bookstore carved into the first floor of the old house. Our grandparents—who owned the store—slept in the bedroom down a long hallway from us. Our bedroom had a fan instead of an air-conditioning unit. Before going to bed, sometimes my brother and I spoke closeContinue reading “Some Words Never Sleep – Dave Williams”
Some Words Never Sleep – Georgiann Carlson
some words never sleep especially the ones with sharp edges meant to cut go deep words that wound draw blood tearing into tender flesh over and over hateful words that drip poison threaten instill fear deceive words used to keep others down in their assigned places words of male gods used by men who rapeContinue reading “Some Words Never Sleep – Georgiann Carlson”
Some Words Never Sleep – Candice L. Daquin
There are mountains like look like bruises in the southwest, where it is so hot at midnight women stand beneath slow fans, ice on their throats & porch geckos make love under a glossy moon. The look in your eyes when you walked away still feels like a tattoo of spiny quills, I swallowed thatContinue reading “Some Words Never Sleep – Candice L. Daquin”
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