Abused by Suzanne Cottrell
Abused Battered by force Our trunks repeatedly hit Accidentally or Intentionally Scrapes, cuts, bruises, welts, fractures Lightning scars, hurtful words Weighed down by snow and ice Like guilt and poor…
Poetry
The Past that Visits by Laurie George-Decker
e rain hates the sun, Like good hates evil, Like flesh hates thorns. You remind me of my mistakes, Show them to me with perfect vision. Yesterday, you didn’t speak…
Poetry
Ferris Wheel by Janet Butler
Ferris Wheel Carnival lights sparkle in a confetti of reds and greens and yellows, shooting stars about to lift and burst held in a magic stasis by the warm airs…
Poetry
Once Lost, Now Found by Maria DePaul
rected By the side Of the road Were accompanied By a sign For a pastor Who had opened A new church On the edge of town. Formerly itinerant, He had…
Fiction
Silence of the Cats by Robert Allen Lupton
his parole officer as soon as he stepped off the bus from prison. He committed a burglary less than an hour after he registered at the halfway house where he’d…