Robert Perchan – On Gunsmoke
On Gunsmoke 383 kills in 635 episodes –Yahoo The Eternal Outlaw rides into Dodge astride Old Beam of Light. He ties Old Beam of Light to a hitching post and throws down shots of redeye inside the Long Branch Saloon. Ah, that inner glow! Those tiny shafts of light searching his dark arteries for the […]
Adele Gardner – In the Vaults
In the Vaults (Inspired by the photograph “Cold Storage” by Richard C. Isner in the collections of The Mariners’ Museum, “In the Vaults” is dedicated to TMM’s cold storage negative vaults and photography collection – with their undreamed, secret life) We left our horses long ago. Their breath still steams in photos, though – Those […]
John Petelle – Five Days in the Park
Five Days in the Park Habit draws me back on Friday. Yellow tape blocks off my park. No admittance, no entry. Stuck in the ground, a battered sign: Lake Closed: Toxic Algae Bloom. No animals to see in this tidy place. I perch on my mountain bike, watching the stout official nervously sweating, flailing with […]
Stephanie M. Wytovich – The Survival of Fishes
The Survival of Fishes There’s a ship inside my stomach, its sails set to drown, to crash and splinter like the wood of the boats I sank, all those men evaporated into shards, into rubble, into dust. Tell me: do Krakens eat the souls of women who never wanted to be sirens? Because I don’t […]
John Grey – An Alien Visits an Earth Psychiatrist
An Alien Visits an Earth Psychiatrist He closes the door behind her. There goes her last remnant of a chance. It’s back into the fog of city streets and their unfriendly denizens. She has nothing in common with any of them. Nor the oak, she rests beneath. Except that its leaves are falling. And so […]
