This was only a harmless flirtation, she told herself, and a bit of sexual tension in the workplace was healthy, it kept everyone on their toes.
POEM OF THE WEEK
Pineapple
By Stella Wong
Lucy Liu, don’t worry, I remember you from the movie Chicago, where Richard Gere said your mother owned all the pineapples of Hawaii.
OPEN TO ALL WRITERS
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FICTION
Gethsemani
By Austin Smith
Merton was impressed by Martin Luther King’s fervency and strength. In the sheen of the camera lights, King looked weary but joyous.
NONFICTION
NONFICTION
FICTION
NONFICTION
Dante on Broadway
By Hal Crowther
Who benefits when we obscure, neglect, and trivialize the accumulated knowledge of the past and its printed artifacts?
NONFICTION
Pilots
By Bridget Quinn
Our unspoken family motto, revered as any coat of arms, was something like We Shall Take No Shit.
FICTION
Merry Elf
By Tom Jenks
You’re not yourself, his wife Ana said. It was what she always said. She was right, in a way.
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
POETRY
Affliction Parish and Other Poems
By Wendy Barnes
Under the numb of sunrise, our synapses atrophied in sweet tea, we watch the floodwaters seethe then recede.
POETRY
Winnipesaukee and Other Poems
By Heather Christle
Some years a truck fell through the ice, and others someone would lean back too far laughing at a joke. The boat’s motor would take off their legs.
POETRY
Exhaling and Other Poems
By Bob Hicok
I was a skinhead in look and seem, a balding guy trying out the future with a shaved head while wearing blue jeans and a white T.
POETRY
POETRY
CARTOONS
POETRY
Oh You Little Faith
By Robin Myers
What if you really have, by now, acquired everything you need from the people who made you because they wanted to make you.
POETRY
Orisha Poems
By Leslie Sainz
Mother, I am not married but I give, am giving, fullness. Am conjuring. Egret in flight. Scent of powder, sea foam.
CARTOONS
Cartoon Art Volume 2018-12
By Various Artists
Unreal and all-too-real new cartoons by Pat Byrnes, Felipe Galindo Gomez, Charlie Hankin, P. C. Vey, and Kim Warp.
