Matthew Ruiz
- Dec 28, 2017
Lost
Loneliness is a boat lost at sea small, wooden, endlessly floating. No land in sight. A storm keeps the boat struggling to stay afloat....
Jennifer Kirkpatrick
- Dec 26, 2017
This Is Just to Say
This is just to say I took $20 Out of your Wallet You probably will never Get it back and Won’t be able to buy That shirt you want I’m...
Cyndy Bonilla
- Dec 25, 2017
Loneliness
Loneliness is an empty room dust floating in the air, books piled on top of a rusty shelf flies and ants dead in a corner— The door...
Ariana Weindling
- Dec 22, 2017
Future
I want to see the world. Different dimensions. Take me to a good day no war. no anger. Show me my future. Who will be by my side. Who...
Marco Chiriboga
- Dec 19, 2017
Deliverance
Life seemed to have ended around here, the space dominated by rotten wood, faded paint, and crumbling walls. Wild animals had torn at the...
Peter Cerrito
- Dec 19, 2017
Safe Haven
The box, covered with dust in a dark desolate attic. Mouse droppings littered across the ground around it and a beam of light shines...
Nadia Lubrano
- Dec 19, 2017
Capsicum Annuum
Strolling over the grounds of an art museum I came across a garden, overgrown with wilted lettuce and intertwining tomato vines. Five...
Aisha Majid
- Dec 19, 2017
This Time
That day she had double taped the cardboard, pulled the elastic band over it—held it closed, held it together, tears splattering without...
Brooke Decker
- Dec 19, 2017
Thank You for the Broken Heart
As she sat in her running car, parked a block away from his house, she stared at the box in the passenger seat beside her. It contained...
Peter Cerrito
- Dec 19, 2017
Neglect
Neglect is a stray dog shivering under an overpass ribs are bulging out of its body, its leg crippled its fur turned almost as black as...