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Short Fiction and Poetry


One Thousand Fifty-Three On My Body by Brahmani Tirumalaraju
I buried his cold corpse with parched and sapped hands, as I began to sense all the numbers on my body convulse. [...]


Apothecary Birds by Vikki C.
I wrote my name in the dust for the last time. You knew my habits well - an ailing language that led us both astray. [...]


Penance by Kathleen Strongarone
Another night has come and gone. Another night of counting the hours until daybreak. Another morning watching the sun slowly rise [...]


Can You Hear Me Now? by Screams Of Unfettered Minds
Sitting alone in my own despair
Just off in the distance ringing I hear
That familiar sound of my phone's ringtone [...]


A Sale Lease-Back by Aneeka Usman
"Selling? Yeah, I am aware that’s what people call it," he tittered.Contrary to what I was told, he didn’t have pointy, shark-like teeth[..]


I Want To Chop The Moon Into Tiny Pieces by Hemanta Dalpati, trans. Pitambar Naik
We compose songs on a moonlit night, we sing humobauli and play hide
and seek, on a moonlit night, go to the jungle [...]


I Hear You by Collins Aguilar
He brought a gun to the house.
It is a cold and heavy and alien-looking thing that Daniel waves in his left hand [...]


It Began With Water by Shirley Jones Luke
It began with water. It began with bodies in the water. It began with African bodies in the water. [...]


Soulful Voices by Ali Ashhar
I sit beneath the sky
on a midsummer night
aside the brook
aloof from the turbulence
and cacophonies I try to evade


Staring At A World Gone By by Richard M. Ankers
I'm staring at a world gone by, laughing without reason or want. There are people on the pathways and cars on the street, but they hide[...]
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