The Italian game. The knight would come out next. Karlsson smiles to himself, pleased that he was one step ahead of the Grandmaster, rightfully assuming that he would not lead with a Gambit.

an inability to recognize the truth doesn’t make it false

With a long history of UFO sightings, spectral events and cattle mutilations, it’s unclear what’s rubbish and what’s at least partially based in fact. The miles and miles of electrified fence ringed with barbed wire only amps the rumors.

Nick Gullo Published author (Into the Cage: Rise of UFC Nation, Random House/Penguin), former lead writer for Vice […]

In the crib lies a baby, eyes lidded as though at the edge of sleep. But the skin is gray, and the infant’s lying on bird wings fanned as though ready to take flight.

we create our own Green Lights!

Author of five collections of poetry, Shoshauna Shy’s poems have been published in numerous journals, magazines, anthologies; as […]

The woman who’s dating my daughter’s boyfriend has feathers tied to the laces of her boots, and trundles off with him down the long stairs to the street.

Paul Smith writes poetry & fiction. He lives near Chicago, has been published in the Rockford Review, Oyez, […]

you go through the wash stages
the final rinse stage feels like
absolution after going to
Confession
where the priest absolves you of all sin
and your soul feels brand spanking new