Hold me down in water, just six inches is enough to drag me away, and two feet would wash away my car, but you knew …
Oasis by Lillie Busch
My skin bakes beneath my clothes. Dusty dry ground crackles beneath our feet. There is a low humming of bugs, and I know that I’ll …
Cigarettes by Grace Dearing
Mason watched her light her third cigarette, digesting her every movement. From his spot inside the café, he could see the exact way her long, …
Yesterday by Helen Sparrow
I did her wrong. There’s not much more. I was calculating, cruel And far beyond rash. The gut-wrenching pain the memory gives me Makes me …
Untitled by Faith Reale
“Is there no hope for me? Is there no way That I might sight and check that speeding bark Which out of sight and sound …
Bloom by Rachana Hegde
back to back / we change and strip / shirts yanked off / pants unzipped / you kiss me / you touch me / you …
Dwindling Scenes by Dana Li
Where does history go—yours and mine? Those days when we tangled limbs and lives. No one told me, love is a bleeding dream: as we …
My Salvation in Sleep by Chance Walsh
She’s an ashen statue, strung with celestial lights. We’re cloaked in smoke, do our mirrors deceive? I’m just some skin and soul soaked in kerosene …
When You Know You Are Losing Each Other by Kate Foley
They are in the basement of a heated house. It is their last night before her airplane comes and he is avoiding her head on …