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“Flight” by Paul Hostovsky
Have you noticedthat birds on the ground usually walk or hopinstead of fly?But they will fly if you get inside theirflight initiation path,which is just a fancy way of sayingtoo close for comfort.Humans like to say things in fancy waysthat can usually be said simpler.This is used to distance other humans.Birds, like humans, will keep […]
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II Poems by Cleveland Wall
Liminal I My lad and I take a short walkto the bottom of the lane behind our house.But the end of the lane is not the end.Beyond lies a road, a swath of green,a wild slope, and the railroad tracks.Beyond the tracks: canal, towpath,river, mountain; and beyond the mountainare shops and a cinema we knowbecause […]
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Research Notes: Postpartum Depression by Mauve Perle Tahat
It occurred to me while watching all the seasons of Ozark back to back that Wendy Byrd’s story arc would have been significantly changed if she had reliable child care around 2007. Sure, the Byrds are a fictional family, with Michael Bluth as the dad [sorry], but the American tradition is clear. The show, as […]
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Braving the Days: One, One, Seven by Jordannah Elizabeth
January 1, 2023 It is the first day of the 2,023 year of the marking of the evening following the stigmata that completed a story, 33 years long. I read many stories, but tales of history allow years, numbers to ascend. So, when the ancient is uttered in any fashion it has become of some […]
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“Black White and Blue” by Ana Gardner
1. The first time a wooden hanger hit my thigh, I crawled into a storybook of Arabian nights, And burrowed through the pages, deep into silence and inky walls Every story a new home Save for two. The tale of an ungrateful boy who out of greed killed his […]
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“The Elephants in the House” by Avra Margariti
The elephant in the room can’t breathe. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson sit around the dinner table with their two teenaged children. They talk, but only empty words drop from their mouths to rise above the clinking of cutlery. How was school? Fine. Pass the salt, please. Thank you. The next day, the elephant in the […]
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“Gothic, Colorado” by Zachary Kellian
The snow crunches like stiff leather under his boots. He winds through the scrub pine and aspens, stragglers along the mountain tree line. An aspen trunk, bone white and skeletal in the winter, becomes a perch on which to steady himself. The snowpack is unpredictable here and he needs the rest as his lungs ignite […]
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Self-care Soup: Mars Roundhouse Kicks in the Door to the Tune of 90’s House Music
Self-care Soup is a short column where Moriah Mylod and M. Perle talk about vibes in the ether and self-care strategies. M. Perle: Aries season is a time when we think about our power. What it’s like, how we use it, where can it get us. We can misuse power, but let’s think about […]
TERSE. Journal : fears. futures. phantasmagorical. funsized. 