By Scott Archer Jones Two middle-aged half brothers kneel in front of the dish-carton as it lies on its side–their mother’s home-made trunk. Instead of paper-wrapped porcelain, it holds photos, clothes, bric-a-brac in its coffin-like maw–their mother’s neutron star having sucked in indiscriminate bits of mass from her decades. Stevie…

By Bruce McRae On My Refrigerator A house drawn by a child. Purple and crooked windows. A big yellow sun smiling at a cloud, a single sad and silvery cloud. And what I think might be a tree in a yard with a broken fence, with a pathway winding nowhere. And little m’s…

By N. Urja (to keep the formatting of the first poem intact, we have added it as an image) Not a minute too soon Six Orgasms Any day that I wish now, I can treat myself to at least six orgasms to make up for the six years in which I faked sixty orgasms — one every six weeks or so…

Dear beloved reader, Small protein-like molecules are used by neurons. Let’s now use the age-old tool of personification. Rashmi is the name of one neuron and Lord of the Rings is the name of another. Rashmi uses those small protein-like molecules to communicate with Lord of the Rings. Lord of…

By Vinayak Patil Eyes

By Louis Faber WINDOW VIEW He knew she had a special meaning for him the first time he saw her, from his usual seat by the window in the diner, waiting for his bagel and cream cheese, and she at the table along the window of the Starbucks across the street, which might as…

By Bobbi Sinha-Morey Life in Candle Wood Wrapped in the stillness of a warm sleepy room, visited by a memory attached to a burgundy dress, I look back on a life I knew not long ago and now I’ve carried this memory to my new home where I get to take long walks by the…

By Rhushikesh Kharkar Poem 1: ना आस कोण्या वैभवाची मी कालचा कंगाल आहे आज मजवर आणता व्यर्थ ही जप्ती कशाला? अनुभवू दे शाप सारे आपल्याच माणसांचे सोसू दे साऱ्या क्षणांना इतक्यात ही मुक्ती कशाला? भरकटून आज थोडे तोल शब्दांचा ढळू दे बंधने साऱ्या जगाची पाळण्याची सक्ती कशाला? Poem 2: इतकेच…

Fiction by Captain Jack Hawksworth Esq. Introduction Scientology has Xenu, the all powerful ruler of the Galactic Confederacy (a bit like Star Trek’s United Federation of Planets, only considerably darker). Xenu brought billions of his people to earth, tied them to volcanoes and killed them with hydrogen bombs. Not a pretty…