Once, I loved someone
and they left for no reason. I said I
wanted to die but I didn’t. I only
wanted to say it. I guess, thinking back,
there was a reason she left me.

Dave Seter is the author of Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021). He […]

Thought bubble in ink: I can hear someone breathing.
At our family table the breath of blown-out candles.
In my back yard hideout breath of wanting. Breath of secrets.

DS Maolalai has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart […]

what ever happened
to just sleeping in
listening to the neighbours
shitting next door
through thin walls
behind music?

I
remember how, when he finished, when he stood up and disappeared, I just
looked up at the sky, softly bleeding, the storm clouds coming in, how even
the sky looked like it was ready to fight

Ron Riekki’s books include My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s […]

“…when we met, she once told me that she lived her days in English but all her dreams were in French. And what happened—” He paused as emotion unexpectedly clogged his throat. He coughed to push the words through. “What happened to her…she did not deserve…”

Christopher Hadin teaches horticulture therapy/environmental enrichment for adults with disabilities. A graduate of Michigan State University, his work […]

The dream started when a woman with a dog on a leash asked me what kind of fish I was fishing for. Not realizing I was fishing until just that moment, I looked down to find a reel attached to a long rod with the butt end in my hands.