Author Archives: terranj

By David Putney As Night and I are fiercesome, facing eye to eye and locked in mortal pirouette, As lunatic the Darkness races, I crave the Slumber to forget. As lullabyes knell their pale torment And I insomnious flee the … Continue reading →

By Gary W. Farris The baseball glove was a Rawlings. It was brand new, stiff and clean, and it lay on the grass on its face, so that the checkerboard pattern on the back of its pocket was facing upward. … Continue reading →

By Scott Cooper The psych ward was bleak on the best of days. It didn’t matter what shade of beige or taupe they used to paint and repaint the walls, what kind of soft, pastel art they hung on them … Continue reading →

by Terri Halsey

By C. R. Manley I tell a gentler version of the Kwakiutl Tsonokwa myth. The hairy bogeyman who lives in the forest and eats noisy children. Broad-Shouldered-Woman who says “Come into my house, child. I have something for you here” … Continue reading →

By C. R. Manley It is the same as with children who can see what their fingers touch: their mouths drop open, eyebrows rise, blank eyes widen. They snatch their fingers from the monster’s mouth. They pull hands away at … Continue reading →

by Elizabeth Carroll Hayden Frail binding cracks, leaving glue’s dust on my fingers, the book falls open, to the underscore on Ulysses, but, I paint Penelope, not scarred by the scrags of war but long years of separation from Ulysses. … Continue reading →

by Andrea Torres

by C.R. Manley I walked out into the parking lot at midnight and scared a jackrabbit twice as big as you. It sat absolutely still for a moment, its long stiff ears straight up, watching me with its sad, dark … Continue reading →