Barney

by David E.J. Berger

Hold on to your whiskers, folks, because today is the day. That’s right. These paws…

Shaming Shoes by Mike Fiorito

When Gina LoRusso convinced me that we could win the King of Queens Dance contest, I pretended to give a shit about dancing so I could get into her pants. For as long as I could remember, my sisters had tortured me with disco songs like “Come to Me” and “Love to Love You…

Moonlight by J. Newell

May 1, 1632

I undid the tie on my bonnet, skipping through yellow reeds long enough to tickle my chin. There was a cool breeze in the air, promises of fall, that lifted tresses of my brown, waved hair. My mother had never let me cut it, so it fell near to my…

Summer’s end (What lips my lips have kissed) by Dario Cannizzaro

The library’s quietest day is usually Wednesday and if you’re able to sneak past the philosophy bookshelves and straight to poetry — there you’ll find a hidden gem, a closed corner with no other access nor exit, a place…

The Bird That Flew Overhead

By: Austin L. Wiggins

The Upsell Artist by Frank Mundo

I read somewhere once that, on average, a man thinks
 about sex every seven seconds. That means,
 in the sixty seconds it took me to pay her,
 I thought about it at least eight times.
 
 Once was the white blob of mayonnaise
 on her green polo shirt, just beneath her name…

86 Mets by Alfonso Colasuonno

Art Morris was uncomfortably aware that he was a child’s idea of an academic. He was unsightly. God had played a joke when creating him, as shown by his rail-thin frame, sallow skin, miniscule lips, and constantly recycled suit. (The single suit was not an issue of money. In…

Three New Poems by Julia Horwitz, Cassandra Cervi, and Sara Barnett from Beautiful Losers #1

Denny’s
By Julia Horwitz

– Artesia & Aviation st.
– pull in & slip by
– gas pump & park
– quickly

Call for submissions!

Dear readers,

we decided to use this Wednesday’s post to invite all of you to submit your…

Acceptable by Kelly Grieve [Catechize #2]

Acceptance. I often analyze words among many other things and I when I find myself at…