by Johnathon Hannon I push the door open. The clang makes my chest seize, like a spotlight just hit me. The bar reeks of stale beer, sweat, and old regrets, tables sticky with history, booths crusted with secrets no one bothered to clean. People stumble, shout, grind, laugh too loud,…
by Rose Mary Boehm Plankter, a word that’s hardly ever used. You’ll never find just one. Plankter. Any organism living in the water column, says Wikipedia, and incapable of swimming against a current is a plankter. Plankton. Food supply for fish and whales. Even sharks like them as appetizers. In the Big-Bang scheme of things, a human must appear…
Pulkita Anand We stop deceiving through language With names and meanings With sounds and spellings With dangling sentences and silent letters With words piling on words With the mob of vandalised words growing With defunct adjectives and rudimentary words With clichéd idioms and repetitive slogans With many languages buried and…