by Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb
While humans wouldn’t necessarily suffocate (most oxygen comes
from marine phytoplankton), surviving a completely deforested world
would be biologically impossible for our species due to
cascading environmental failures.
–from an AI Overview on Google Continue reading
Filed under Poetry
by Maryam Khamesi
We had moved to a cul-de-sac, wedged between a couple who gifted us Bibles for Christmas and dressed their children like porcelain dolls and a neighbor who lived on his rocking chair, observing the street as God. Continue reading
Filed under Fiction
by Esther Sadoff
We eat by the river,
girls sunbathing
in dappled light.
They remind me
of Artemis
and her female
hunters. Continue reading
Filed under Poetry
by Robert L. Penick
I am the only house left after the tornado introduces a new order to the neighborhood. Other dwellings, greater and lesser, have been multiplied and extrapolated across lawns, streets, and sidewalks. “Is this entropy?” I wonder, as my windows gaze out over the recent diffusion of order. Things are not what they used to be, but this is certain: Zillow listings will need to be updated. Continue reading
Filed under Fiction
by Michael C. Smith
I thought he could get up, the man
who fell in the checkout line three
customers in front of me. I thought someone knew
what to do. But it was two days before
Christmas and no one had any nerves left. Continue reading
