Recent Writing

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Queen of the Café

by Julian Gallo She has the right hairstyle, the right eyeglasses, and the right clothes—everything carefully crafted to solidify her place in the bohemian world in which she desperately wants to belong.   She holds court at the table at the back of the café, surrounded by mostly male admirers, all…

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Nibiru

by Jarek Jarvis I am coming to terms with the cosmichorrors of everyday reality. Catastrophespropagate around me. Even if I ignorethe peripheries, I know that formillennia you have hidden your facebehind the sun. Despite light pollution,I scan the muddy horizon in anticipationof your eventual reemergence. Sure,some Mayan mathematician may haveforgotten…

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Girl sitting on a pier by a lake Image by Birti Ishar

[Fade from white]

by Jeffrey Kingman I’m dissolving into a girl on a pier on a lake. I thought you might see yourself that way         my washy pastels. If there is a pier and a lakeyou might come along as a pair of eyes             a singularity and all you can do             is remember…

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