Even though I shouldBecause I am ashamedAt the bullets that rainAt the bullet point painEtched in their faces, rivulets in their eyesThey were just children, stolen from their timeNot forgotten in these linesBut to their parents and loved onesIt’s a void they’ll never fill, and it shouldn’tLives shredded and ruined17 times we’ve gotten the chanceContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Devereaux Frazier”
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Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Eric Syrdal
In a room so still I hear echoes of a former life I hear the twisting and creaking of this thread I hang from Knotted and frayed it binds my heart in pieces that have shattered So many times they no longer fit together and their edges are so razor sharp They cut me toContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Eric Syrdal”
Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Rachael Z. Ikins
I’m the child you locked in.Every afternoon and every Saturday morning. The child you said was fat, whose food you took away, who served you dessert but wasn’t allowed to lick the spoon.I was that too-blonde, too-good, girl who was too afraid to touch Down There. Using allowance on 10 candy bars at a time,Continue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Rachael Z. Ikins”
Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Megha Sood
False ownership—this is strangely annoying—when you see arrogance insomeone who doesn’t own a thing.Can’t conjure a thing out of thin airlet alone a human being.You are just the renter here. You don’t own shit. Megha Sood, Excerpt from ‘The Color of Our Rights: A Reproductive Rights Collaboration’, Darker Objects “No artist can thrive in isolation.Continue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Megha Sood”
Authors in Indie Blu(e) Anthologies: Antonio Vallone
We’d very much like to highlight poet, editor and professor, Antonio Vallone whose work was featured in Indie Blu(e)’s But You Don’t Look Sick anthology last year. Vallone’s work impressed the editors so much we nominated him for a Pushcart. When you read Vallone’s work you’ll see why this wasn’t a hard decision but aContinue reading “Authors in Indie Blu(e) Anthologies: Antonio Vallone”
Indie Blu(e) Publishing 