For a long time, my favorite library was in the laundry room of my apartment building. It sprang up soon after my husband and I moved in, when someone left two cheap bookcases in the basement and a few cartons …
The box-like houses the camp’s children drew had slanting roofs and picket fences under ice-cream clouds, cows, farmers, machinery, paths, roads, cars, tanks, corpses, and flames–The Seen–reproduced unoriginally on mass.
Hashim was the exception.
His works boomed with …
Delia Quigley hugged her bundle of magazines and stepped onto the Red 92.
“Good evening, Stanley.” She flashed her bus pass and took a seat.
“Right back at ya, Delia.”
The bus lurched forward. Outside, the golden setting sun glinted …
Seated on the couch, with earbuds plugged in, and a laptop on her thighs, Pooja typed ‘Moving On’ into the search bar. She selected three scenic images that had a quote written in the center and pasted them in a …
September 8, 2021
Heading out today, my thoughts refuse to settle, draining my mental energy. Escalating issues with a negligent window replacement company; pressure to get quotes to replace a long rotting retaining wall that is housing wasps, at least …
Eyeing my salad with disdain, my teeth crunched on skittles.
Becky Parker is married and resides in Tennessee. She writes poetry, enjoys hearing a tall tale, traveling, RV glamping, DIY projects, gardening. She has 2 daughters and three grands. She …
Alicia could wear a short cocktail dress, arms and legs open to the air. But Tim had to wear a three-piece suit with long sleeves. Even in this heat. At least he could carry the jacket on the subway.
“Whose …
Several weeks before he started the 11th grade, Dylan’s mother said a college friend from Kentucky was coming to visit. She would bring her daughter Hailey, who was just his age. His mother wanted him to figure out something …
We are sitting at a table by the window at her favorite restaurant, the one with that spinach artichoke dip. Two women, one 75 the other 62. We have known each other for five decades.
Rhonda speaks in a speeding, loud …
The weight of her thighs… what is one more piece?
After receiving her BFA in Studio Art, Laura Shorey Montgomery embarked on a decades-long journey that took her halfway around the world to work on an organic farm in Estonia, …