Hendrik Luup   CC I’d like to tell her I hate you with the whole of my mouth, she said and I want to tell her to save it. For eating or she’s running and needs it to breathe. And though I love...

Shaun Fisher   CC Extraterrestrial, or, I Admit Myself to Myself                         We count the pill bottles.                         One through whatever comes    ...

sony2k_pl   CC THAT BEAUTIFUL SENTENCE  the way you no longer  knock yourself out about tackling  every  single capitalist injustice, instead turning  to other lives,  being a lover, being a ...

Lane Pearman   CC Mirrors and Memory Traps I enter a room, rising into a sphere of suspended mirrors. The room is full of what look like clouds. Clouds with whole galaxies contained within them....

Paul Sableman   CC Left And Jacoba left Carbondale for altitude  and the Southwest mesas, and she named  her sons Gestas and Dismas, born fourteen months apart, like peas in a pod, like honey  in...

Hendrik Luup   CC ​ Sambuca  You say a thought is not a thing, but it is a thing. Thoughts have thingness. They are born and they grow, do things, fade, die. One drunk thought runs his car into...

chumlee10   CC ​ LEARNER’S PERMIT Not so different from a Tennessee backroad: grasses feathered to summer’s call, mid-June, already hitting high heat. This road slinks into woods and...

Cindy Shebley   CC Winner Winner My mother-in-law called me after Travis' death and asked for his ashes. This might have seemed like a reasonable request, but her actual words were  “Someday when...

John Buie   CC For every bird, a bomb for every love story, a tale  of unbearable loss. Excuse me,  I cannot look into the light  without squinting. Excuse me, I have already gutted this  life...

Paul Sableman   CC Artists Under the Overpass There’s a gathering downtown, More landing spot than destination.  Where the rich kids buy their weed, On their low-class vacation.  For others...

John Buie   CC Plastic Chair Throne Crooked on the porch white plastic legs shift, creak under mom’s restlessness; her throne has gone greyish by the dirt dust kicked-up  beneath the rumble of...

Paul Sableman   CC DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT (Title inspired by Arrested Development 2003 ) Probably the bed, Or the porch, Would be a better place to spend your time But you like to idle inbetweenspaces.....

​Chaim Dönnewa   CC du hast schon augen (you have beautiful eyes) ~ I had a Greek professor – in my line of work (those who strive to become doctors of philosophy),  we do executive...

Aurélien Adoue   CC “I weep because you cannot save people, only love them”  Anaïs Nin I know I cannot save you.  I can’t stop the cancer from coming back, the joints from deteriorating,...

Aurélien Adoue   CC ALL AND NOTHING I walked myself into the vault of the sky and found nothing. No surprise then that I wanted  chemical everything all the more. It was for curiosity's sake at...

Shaun Fisher   CC How to Quit Drinking Delete social media apps from your phone. Better yet, turn off your phone. The news is full of reasons to drink: the stock market plummeting in response to...

Paul Sableman   CC 1986, September                                                                Rather notice,                                 ...

Clinton Steeds   CC A Commission Sing a song     for the men I loved                 whom I had to throw back in the sea Sing a song     for all the men with         holes in...

Daniel Tuttle   CC SOCIAL DISTANCING AT THE CREMATORIUM  This is where I last see you, in a cardboard casket “friendly to the environment,” which would have  made you laugh, filled with...

Philip   CC A Better Job Good things that go unshared are not, in the end, good.       Rain is beating on the roof. I am at the desk. I have a coffee. It’s Sunday. A few days ago, the...

Philip   CC A Better Job Good things that go unshared are not, in the end, good.       Rain is beating on the roof. I am at the desk. I have a coffee. It’s Sunday. A few days ago, the...