Final Editorial Note

Reading back our first editorial note it’d seem nothing has changed. We’re still just as grateful for all the freely-available online works of prose and poetry and feel just as indebted with the literary community at large as to want to give something back. And for the past fifteen months, we like to think that […]

WHAT DREAMS MAY INHALE – Willem Myra

him a pair of floating lungs her but a sentient blunt ceci n’est pas une pipe he meets her in the club & for days she pops in everything he says, annoying his flatmates; his Skype friend, a tobacco monopolist in a third world country, offers him unlimited access to cigarette factories oversea. “You don’t […]

MISSIVE – Ken Allan Dronsfield

Lost midnight moon at rise; colors void with fall’s crisp breeze questions are of life beyond here somewhere, out there in an abyss planets void of the sun pulsating colder here in this global warming red apples fall into eager hands heaven’s grand curtains closing the next act begins with falling snow red twilight now […]

ANOTHER ECHOLOCATION EXPERIMENT ENDS IN FAILURE – Faye Brinsmead

The colloquium begins. The dolphins swirl in slow rings around the two subjects. The lead researcher points out their salient features. Breeding-age female; size and weight of a calf on the cusp of being weaned; grossly underdeveloped rostrum, typical of the species; no suprafacial sound-conducting fatty deposits, also typical. Elderly male; height of an undersized […]

ASCENDING AND DESCENDING – Beth Gordon

after M.C. Escher Our friend on the river has a sinus disease, her head watery and close to drowned, she wants to know if we will be at her visitation when she succumbs to parasites, her house overflowing with half-feral cats and photographs of Cambodian elephants and the deck she built two months after a […]

TWO PAINTINGS – Karen Little (kazvina)

Segregation shows a maze that appears to be gilded, beautiful even. The creatures of the land are separated from the creatures of the air. They have evolved with skills useful if they had freedom. Both are unable to escape, squeezed in and removed from the possibility of integrating. I wanted to show the cruelty of segregation, […]

FOUR HAIGA – Robin Anna Smith

Robin Anna Smith is an award-winning, Pushcart-nominated writer and visual artist whose work focuses on disability, gender, trauma, and loss. Her work is published in numerous journals and anthologies. Robin is the founding editor for Human/Kind Journal and a regular contributor at Rhythm & Bones. Twitter: @robinannasmith.

WIND ON RAIN SLICKED SKIN – Jeffrey Yamaguchi

The fires were finally under control, so the road was opened back up. Not everyone knew this, so there weren’t many people around. An ideal situation on all fronts – open roads, no people, upon an expansive land in seasonal flux that had extinguished fire. I arrived in late afternoon, no time for a hike, […]

AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND – Rachel Abbey McCafferty

The day the bugs descended, the air was thick with warmth and wings. Every surface shimmered, shivered, shook with countless antenna, even more legs. People breathed them in while they walked and left smears of red and grayish brown wherever they stepped. Man did what he does and waged war. But their chemicals failed them. […]

DIESE NACHT – Stephanie K Brownell

1. Lights like any city your city made of models and when I left it, mountains, music marking the tempo of earth. You don’t notice the shape of the roof or the mountain the painting on the stucco wall. Your city is only beautiful from above when everything is small. Your city is a duckling. […]