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Accelerated History of Us by Gordon Taylor

March 8, 2022

You steady me, hand / on my back, as we float through / a slow-cooked summer.

March 1, 2022

The war did not take my head off. The war was never in the streets.

March 1, 2022

shouts of hungry men, lust in their curses.

February 22, 2022

<div class=“no-indent”>Now, lullabying the puppies calm is enough.</div>

February 22, 2022

“There will be one person in the room who harbors the truth but she won’t speak up.”

A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
Inspiration is a foggy fellow, emerging from nothing, dissipating into nothing, answering to nothing.
Our Theseus by Nathan Jefferson
Last week he was a dishwasher who his coworkers called Ricky. Today he’s a day laborer named Eddie, clearing a pair of fallen trees off a new build’s lawn and fixing up a large garden. Rotting plank ripped out, new plank inserted.
Robbing the Pillars by Marie Goyette
Ruth stood on the narrow iron bridge, gripping her father’s obsidian necklace, and wondered how many years it would take before the river wore them both down to nothing.
The Call by Eben E. B. Bein
I hungered into that quiet until— there—unbelievable!— a wolf spider scuttled onto a leaf.
Saturation by Claire Oleson
I no longer harangue every desk nurse at every hospital for a taxonomic breakdown of her bills. I don’t ask for the numbers of the Benadryl, the water cups, the abdominal touches done with gloved hands. I am the most American I’ve ever been—she costs what she costs and I eat it.