Contemporary Romance 1 min Our Formal Get-Together Laura James We became a hyphenated word likehonky-tonk, long-term, six-pack, full-timeWe dropped the dash ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min Sharing a Sink with John B. Keane in a Pub Toilet Steve Denehan I am rarely in a pubI had never been in Kerrybut that evening I found myselfin a pub in ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min I Do Not Begrudge the Young Rolli . their oceanof avenuesFor I have cometo a conclusion—somebastionof sandfrom which I ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min Short-sighted Susan O'Neal One of the children believesthat wasps can be short-sighted.She's frightened of them,so we ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min Winter Dark Steve Denehan I wake, creakingthe room is coldthe house is silentthe day waitsI tell myself to get upthe ... [+]
Contemporary Humor 1 min Tax Breaks for Weird Ghosts H. A. Eugene My aunt ran a shelter for ghostsall kinds: shades, spooks, specters seekers seeking hauntable ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min My Concession Charles Joseph Albert I used to find it hard to lose at chess.I'd watch in disbelief the check and mate,think through ... [+]
Contemporary Romance 1 min Mature Audience Angel in Raybans Dennis Edelen Down by the red brick wallWhere the trains used to runShe waits for me.She's got he ... [+]
Contemporary Romance 1 min Mature Audience Cimmerian Avra Margariti I would live in perpetual darkness Knowing you by touch alone— A relief of scales, a ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min Interpreters Erin Kirsh I Mick, we are in a swamp. Bullrush baited, thick in the thicket, vibrant and violent. We ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience Isosceles II (Incorrigible) M. R. Cain I'm a triangle my edges are hard always snagging on the soft, soft world my scars are ... [+]
Contemporary Joy 1 min Summer Rituals Erin Kirsh Fireworks rupture the smoke gold stars like sky-sealed approval burst trickle down green ... [+]
Contemporary Nature 1 min Mature Audience Sensitive Devin S. Turk Too much noise will shred the softest parts of me. at the crash of a cymbal, I am reminded ... [+]
Contemporary Joy 1 min Getting Her Daughter Ready Sarah Barr She ties on her daughter's wings made notof wax, leather, eagle feathers, but ofpaper, ribbon ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min Six Feet Dotty LeMieux The length of my dog's leash. Meeting another, twelve feet between wary humans, dogs sniff nose ... [+]
Contemporary Melancholy 1 min Dorothy's Poem Lorraine Schein The gray field of the rain had risen. She slept on the worn patchwork quilt of the sky.When ... [+]
Contemporary Melancholy 1 min Mature Audience iPhone Ann Garrett Phone on Enter passcode: **** Phone (app) Favorites Swish Edi Scroll down Done ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min 1991, 1992 Zac Kline Purple Lakers cap, just back, from a family trip to Los Angeles. Or maybe, we had been ... [+]
Contemporary 1 min Mature Audience Evolutionary Fears Koji A. Dae I sit in a chair that melts to nothing beneath me. I close my eyes because she says I can ... [+]
Contemporary Melancholy 1 min The Heron Steve Denehan I look out the car window across night fields squinting; I can see lives I never lived ... [+]
