By: Tyler Morello Somewhere off in a foreign oasis shuffles a summit of suited men,shaking hands and bowing, feigning courtesy,a grayscale congregation.Emissaries gather from far corners of the globe, crowding embassies:glass houses that reverberate the threatof throwing stones.These agents represent the profligate, the immoral world’s string-pullers,masters of the ministerial marionettes,parroting their voices.They always look the…
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Iron and Earth
By: Jordan Cagle There were nights when the Moon was fulland very, very low, and the tide was so highthat the Moon missed a ducking in the seaby a hair’s-breadth; well, let’s say a fewyards anyway. Climb up on the Moon? Ofcourse we did.—Italo Calvino, “The Distance of the Moon”in CosmicomicsI can go months without…
Fractaling Futures
By: Lesli Saige Johnson I have lived a thousand livesa thousand unseen worldsversions of me that exist throughtimeripples and shattered mirrorsevery choice spawns new realitiesendless possibilitiesspiraling out of control and intoinfinityfractals of futuresThere is a me that is marriedseveral years ago nowwed to the missionary I emailedin high schoolstill church-goingprobably pregnant with baby #2temple worthya…
Midnight Veil Collection
Midnight Veil By: Erin Moine It walks beside you in the dark——dark as the star-studded quilt covering the skyat midnight.Midnight, the time in the ouroboros when the Veil shedsa layer,like a Copperhead sheds a layer of skin.The skin of the Veil, this pulsing creaturethis cryptid of malice, evanescence, and poise.You don’t see it immediately.Seeing it…
Conscious Nightmares Collection
Conscious Nightmares By: Emily McNealy Total blackness, my eyes lack to see.As panic arises, I stagger my feet.Visions of creatures arise in the dark,Deep in the shadows with forms still so stark.Corporeal things my arms do evade,I’m thrashing around and kicking my legs.Where have I gone, if not insane?In this despair I’ve lost my own…
Unseen Dreams
By Saige Johnson I long dreamed of what rested On the other side of the fabled fairy rings At my grandmother’s house hidden in the lush lawn abundant brown capped mushrooms Marked the pathways between their world and mine I could only dream of what was on the other side Creatures I could just barely…