by Guest Author | Jan 18, 2022 | Fiction, Guest Authors
Bright lights shine along with the crowd as the bass shakes the club’s floors. Everyone is here to escape—some more often than others. My body jumps to the beat that helps you out the everyday emotions and thoughts. In between each song, the thoughts try to...
by Guest Author | Dec 7, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
It’s my birthday and I’ll change if I must. That was going through my mind when I woke up. You see the devil IS in the details and like most people I didn’t read the details. I saw the pain that tormented my parent’s bodies. I went to bed their grief...
by Guest Author | Nov 23, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
I watch her writhing, body doubling up as a fresh rush of pain hits her with all its force. The Magic Wives tend to her and provide relief from the torment, via a torturous process. A creature they call, ‘The Needle.’ She stays still, my love,...
by Guest Author | Oct 26, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
The sky was dark. The smoke-filled air eliminated a view of the moon or any visible stars. Forest fires were burning too close for comfort. Above me, I saw nothing but blackness, an abyss. I had read something once about nearing a full moon. The energy shift that...
by Guest Author | Sep 28, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
Flutes in their lower register unleash their words over a scene of fifty blossomed cherry trees. The tree known for her vulnerability is the cherry tree. A large trunk for a torso, she hovers and grows like the most knowing woman you’ve ever met. Being wise and able...
by Guest Author | Aug 17, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
Chapter 1: I Have a PlanJuly 2014My mobile phone buzzes in front of me on the bare windowsill. One message. Lock me in at 11, as usual, Sonja writes. Same message she sent yesterday at this time. Same as the day before. And the day before that… She reminds me every...
by Guest Author | Jul 6, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
My ancestors began their lives in the fertile crescent of Egypt about 4,000 years ago. The Egyptians revere us as the great hunters we are and worship us as gods and goddesses. One of the most revered goddesses is Bastet. She, the keeper of the hearth and home,...
by Guest Author | Jun 29, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
A late November gust whips my cheeks, picks at my skirt, sticky arthritis fingers stretch into my pockets. I poke into that hole I haven’t had time to mend, then tangle in loose threads, another poke from that tatty appointment card worn from calls of harassment—book,...
by Guest Author | Jun 22, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
Cigarette smoke fills my nose and I see my father slam my mother by her neck onto the cracked polyurethane coated, wood kitchen table by her neck. This is the earliest memory I have; this is what keeps me up at night with cold sweats and wishful thinking. This memory...
by Guest Author | May 12, 2021 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
October 11th, 1985Briana was chewing on her fingernails again. “Quit it, baby.” She looked at me sheepishly, “Sorry, honey, I can’t help it. Bad habit.” Our waitress came by with a fresh pitcher. Fall would soon be in full swing and Briana was wrapped in a large...
