by Wayne Johns Abandoned Duplex What but us suffers from not being touched?Like matter eclipsed, empty space alters light. Emptiness also alters sight. Don’t forget how he looked at you with lust and disdain. Still filled with lust and disdain, you forgetfaking love in a room slowly filling with snow. Two men making love in […]
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by E.B. Schnepp The best part of Rocky Horror is when the makeup starts to run Hair hangs limp, drenched from sweat, from the pool scene, and tears start to form in stockings. Columbia’s breasts break free of her corset; everything decays, bleeds raw at the edges. Frank’n’Furter crying around a waterlogged smile — are you having a good […]
by Jacklin Farley After Beholding the Stains on My PBR Can My beloved whispers against my bare, open neck – “I want your lipstick on everything” – then examines my sleek aluminum cylinder again under the dive bar fairy lights, as if it were somerare mineral specimen or elusive icon of unparalleled archeological import. My paisley-print denim mini skirt dampening beneath […]
by Eric Lochridge Wild Horse Island Our summer road trip ended in Lakeside at dusk, thunderstorm roiling the water. Gray lake agitated, Grandpa’s boats bobbed like ice cubesat the docks. The glare of the dying day raged in my stepmother’s eyes. Her wrath struck like lightningthat always found my body—half-moon marks on my wrist, archipelago of bruises across my thigh.Dad scurried […]
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