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Saving Daylight.

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by Benjamin White.

The Golden Age

Is gilded greed,

So save your integrity

In a shoebox

Under your bed

Or in your top drawer

With your secret hopes,

Or buried

In te back yard

Where you mind

And memories

Intersect and meet

To redirect the heat you feel

When you peel the sunshine

From the sky

Until it is gone,

And you don’t know why

It was replaced

By emotions rising

With rain and pain

Caught in the press

With lies disguised

As an exit to paradise

Where sacrifice will be squeezed

Into poverty

Without pride,

Yet justified by the gaps

Widening between

The unseen materialization

Of someone else’s dream

Not hearing

Your hollow scream

Echoing the expense

Spent on monthly payments

Shivering in the lost years

Tears could not rescue

Regardless of

How much

Daylight you tried

To save…

 

Manzanita (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. Certain things stick most to my memory. I can bring up pictures of places I’ve lived, of people I’ve loved, of meals I’ve eaten. I still remember meeting my best friend of almost fifty years. It was at a Chinese restaurant. Ya Su Yuan. The dumplings were fantastic. I hadn’t wanted to […]

A Letter to Humanity.

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by David Bolton. Dear Mortals, Allow me to reveal myself. I am what you call “a pure spirit,” an Immortal. I have been observing humans since the dawn of mankind, when you shed your fur and stood upright. Indeed, you’ve come far in a brief span, only 12,000 years separating the birth of agriculture and […]

Demons in the Ink.

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by K.R. Moore.   With a stab and splatter, Kim sliced his dagger of a pen through the monsters composed of dark liquid at bay, dropping them back into the vast ocean of black from whence they came that he slowly waded through one step at a time. Above the endless sea of black was […]

A Room In And Away.

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by Matthew Harrison. It was the stillness that made Jacob Stewart look up from his phone. Grandpa Mark wasn’t making that horsed breathing sound from his white bed anymore. “Grandpa Mark?” Jacob said. His grandfather made no noise, and his chest wasn’t moving either. Gooseflesh prickled on Jacob’s arm. He’s dead. What should I do? […]

Finding My Way Back.

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by Claudia Wysocky. I beheld a stranger in the cracked mirror that once doubled as my best friend and worst enemy. Thin, sunken cheeks stared back at me, hollowed out by anorexia’s relentless grip. My ribs jutted out like a macabre xylophone, each bone a discordant note in the song of my life. I hated […]

Saving Paradise.

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by Brian Griffith. If heaven was a realm of ultimate purity where the purest souls would dwell forever, then the ways people imagined paradise revealed their images of human perfection. If all vices or corruptions were cleansed away, what would true purity be like? In Buddhist nirvana or Hindu moksha, “paradise” was a state of […]

One-Eyed Peke.

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by Tori Ritchie. When our dog Caesar died, my father went to the pound and got a Pekingese and named him Sun Yat-sen. My father had a thing for imperious names and this one did have a regal bearing, with his flat nose held high and his spiraled tail waving aloft. But his origins were […]

Pull back the curtains and open the door.

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by Cliff Beck. Weary of winter mornings filled with the dark confusion that underscored the night before we long to see Helios climbing high, illuminating our lives as his fiery chariot crosses the summer sky. Yet as soon as rosy fingered Eos calls us from our beds we change the time, banish the lark, bring […]

The Hands of My Three Great Aunts.

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by Gail White.   Their skin was liver-spotted, bruised, wrinkled, the veins so prominent I was repelled. I was a child and they were old, long-widowed, shapeless, generous, kindly, full of tales and folklore, old Southern ladies who never put a hat on the bed in all their lives, because that was unlucky. To me, […]