Recent Writing

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Where the Light Breaks In

by Hayley Russell Morning arrives like forgiveness, slow, reluctant, soft around the edges.   I wake to the thin seam of light  slipping beneath the curtain,  a reminder that even closed spaces find their own ways to breathe.   Some days,  I am all heaviness, a stone learning to speak. Other days,  I am the window,  open just enough to let warmth through.  Healing isn’t the rising. It’s the returning again and again  to the quiet place…

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Every Politician Eats Gunpowder for Breakfast

by Ophelia Knight In America      the pledge of allegiance is godly     no man who serves his country will   have benefits for life   they are fleeting          every politician has sacrificed a life written random names of innocent bystanders on stinky notes      come back to the scene of the crime    and shrugged over dead bodies   informed their guard…

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The Prognosis

by Samuel Goldsmith 243? Is your scale broken? I’m afraid not, Mister Goldsmith.  That stress goes straight to your waist.  Might I suggest a lifestyle change? I recommend you eat more green food and fewer red alerts.  But Doc, I already buried my checkmarks out back. I’m as unverified as a midnight snack, yet I can’t keep from being captive,  a captain about to capsize…

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