LXIX

by Emily Dickinson

ONE need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

Hello, Everyone

by Sharon Mesmer

Hello, everyone.
I am a new writer
and I am currently working on
a fictional novel
that is also fantasy.
I have not read much fantasy
except for The Chronicles of Narnia,
but I think the best thing
is just use imagination.
My favorite quote is…

Flora

by Ginger Ko

You called to tell me “The money’s good — I’m ready to be married!” but we had already wed years ago.

I am disgusting. Raised to be a bride, to hate myself for it, I come to you full of brides.

The Dead Girls Speak in Unison

by Danielle Pafunda

We’ll tell you
what a corpse is.

It’s a girl

with her shoes
on backward.

from The Rest Is Censored

by K. Lorraine Graham

Handsome Monster

by Joyce Mansour

I Grade Online Humanities Tests

by Sandra Simonds

at McDonalds where there are no black people
and there’s a multiple choice question
or white people about Don Quixote
or Asian or Indian people I don’t want to be around
people I want to be here where there is
free…

Fall Parties

by Becca Klaver

I cannot wait for fall parties.
The invitations have begun to roll in.

I used to think I loved summer parties
until they got this year so sweaty and sad,