May 24, 2018 | All Authors, All Formats, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Poetry, Shawn Aveningo Sanders
Shawn Aveningo Sanders is a globally published, award-winning poet who can’t stand the taste of coconut, eats pistachios daily and loves shoes … especially red ones! (redshoepoet.com) Shawn’s work has appeared in over 100 literary journals and anthologies....May 24, 2018 | AK Krajewska, All Authors, All Formats, Issue 6, Day in the Life of a Survivor, Poetry, Uncategorized
Agnieszka Krajewska is a poet, essayist, and combat epistemologist. She received an MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 2004, and was ordained as an Adept in the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn in 2009. Her poems have appeared in two...Aug 24, 2017 | Issue 5: Memoirs, Jennifer Jussel, Poetry
I can see you teaching him to walk. How his little feet stuttered How his fingers—unbelievably tiny— reached eagerly for yours, with your nails that shined like Christmas. Maybe it is Christmas. Maybe you’re taking pictures and laughing and beaming at him as he tears...Aug 24, 2017 | Eliza Stopps, Issue 5: Memoirs, Poetry, Uncategorized
There’s a sound that takes me back to my childhood. I’ll save you the guessing, it’s not rolling, clapping thunder or tap-tap rain. It’s snapping ankles, up the stairs, in the dark. Is that the walls or someone walking? I notice it everywhere I...Aug 24, 2017 | Issue 5: Memoirs, Poetry, Thomas Young
I don’t know why I’m here today, it wasn’t in my plan, but here we are, just you and I, and I don’t understand. We haven’t talked in quite some time, I just can’t find the time, But I think about you often, you’ve been heavy on my mind. Everyone at home is well, the...Aug 24, 2017 | Issue 5: Memoirs, Lotte Roy, Poetry
What magic transpires when in the grip of the puppet-meister… What sucked me in? What pulled me tight? What trapped my mind, believing that this was right… An escape, my way out…how delicious it tasted, How susceptible was my spirit to the conundrum awaiting…...