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we've published thousands of stories during the last nine years since february 2005 we decided to start saving a few from each month, enjoy Matthew D'Abate A Real Shooter Nik Korpon A Sparrow with White Scars Serial Poet Series Sara Beth Chavanne I Have to Stop Speaking in Parables Poetry: Alexis Child Dialogue between God and the Ghost Fiona Helmsley The Most Beautiful Girl I Ever Did See Francis Raven Necropolis Keith Wood A Feral Brunette Blur Kenneth Pobo Deathknell Villanelle Mathias Nelson This Morning Dove M. Frias May Pablo Poe Michael Estabrook Just A Little Jennifer Zaslow The Plague Pete Simonelli Downtown Portrait Richard Thomas Condemned Serial Poet Series Sara Beth Chavanne Giselle Poetry: Zachary C. Bush Flight Simon Friel From Upon Montjuic Brian Hardie The Classic Pangs of My Love for Tracy Maurice Oliver 365 Words For Brushfire Marek Parker Held On Too Long Robert Warrington Scream Queen Jason Floyd Williams The Crooked Path xTx Monogamy Monotony Jennifer Zaslow The Plague Kris Saknussemm Any Road Any Time Karl Koweski Lusty Tarts Mark Spitzer How Madame Skeeza Bit the Dust Thereby Creating Krala Serial Poet Series Sara Beth Hamry A Song Without a Breath Poetry: Hailey Tay Intelligently Impaired Luis Rivas Cuidate Holli Holdsworth African Triangle Michelle McDannold Spin...and Spin...and Spin Matt Roberts Allied Against My Dreams Ayesha Thomas A Memory File Aleathia Drehmer Evidence Daniel Irwin Siren Song Joan McNerney Blown Away Lynn Alexander You Know What To Do Michael C. Keith The Gravitron Twister Serial Poet Series Aimee Delong Plugged Poem #7 Poetry: John Dorsey In Heaven Even Death Smells Like Sex J. J. Campbell I Like Mom Better Anyway Cynthia Ruth Lewis Following The Shit-Brick Road Li Min Hua Caveat* Alexicus Maximus Sex For Money Joshua Samuel Brown Milky Teats of Serendipity Willie Smith Hymn to a Homonym Will Spires If God Made Little Demons Aimee Delong Plugged Poem #6 Christopher Barnes Snowfari Wedding Melanie Browne Siren Song David Labounty The Stale and Prosperous Air Ernest Williamson III The Misfortune of Shallow Sight Jon Bennett What Everyone Was Thinking Richard Lighthouse My Muse Paul Corman-Roberts Dream Elegy for a Vampyre Aimee Delong Chuck Klosterman: Pop-Culture Therapist Cassandra Dallett My 1984 Justin Hyde //some genealogy in the 3am shadow of the old man// Melissa Hansen The Watchman John Dorsey Wild Flowers Peter Nezafati Interview Patrick Ryan Dunn Sullivan Flash Carmelo Valone For the Acrostic, He Was a Real God to Some of Us Fiona Helmsley Equality        Interview: Aimee Delong Auguste Garufi Kelyn Stump If Only Beta Blockers Would Allow Me to Clear You Out Edward Salem Soil Poem F. D. Marcél Getting Better All the Time Sharmagne Leland-St. John I Said Coffee Ritwik Deo She Breathes Christ Eva Kilgore Getting Over It Michael Loughrey Down & Dirty Sam Virzi Manslaughter H. V. Whitehead Heart Shaped Prozac Laura LeHew Seeking That Tell Tale Sign G.A. Scheinoha Sightless Angela Ash Pink Tissues Victor Schwartzman You Of All People Know What I Mean Ted Jackins Free Associate Joseph Reich Acorn Stew Joseph Zozaya Following the Lost J. A. Tyler Parenthetical #6 William Taylor, Jr. Three Men on Market Street, Saturday Night Amanda Pampuro Knock, Knock xtx Marathoning DB Cox Redemption Durenda X The Grain in the Wood That the Cabinets Are Constructed Of Les Wicks Strung Country Mari Mitchell Dead Rabbit Fiona Helmsley Ghoul Girl Grows Up Ryan Standley Before The Storm C. Thomas FFD Luis Rivas To The Dying Cat in the Street We Couldn't Save Robin Halevy Requiem C. A. Dominick Mariela Ramsey Sad Existence of Junkyard Treasure Christopher Major Reaction Ken Pobo Dental Appointment Keith Wood Secrets Rachel Kendall Axis Peter Robertson Trip To Hell Cynthia Ruth Lewis Incidentals Kenneth Mulvey 15 Dollars, Bargain Sounds, and We Are Fearless Dave Morrison Man Oh Manifesto Simon Friel Day 1 Alexis Child War Hammer Richard Fein The Hundredth Poem Fiona Helmsley Smoking Struggles Keith Wood Alone xtx A Movie Preview Story Jennifer Smythe What Married Men Taste Like Jan Steckel The Horizontal Poet Eddie Kilowatt The Porn Debate Justin Hyde Car Full of Chickenshit in Front of Me Nicholas Karavatos She Knows I Exist Michele L'Heureux Deliverance Bob Boston Surf and Turf with a Goodfella on the Low-Down Michael Gurnow Afterward Michael K. White Ralph and the Rubbers (A Cautionary Tale) Milan Smith Sara's Flesh Scott Casale Outside: The Mind of a Serial Killer         Aimee DeLong David Henry Sterry Interview         Neeli Cherkovski Hitchhiking Daniel S. Irwin Heaven On Earth Patrick Carrington One Mighty Fine Piece of Strange Levon D. The American Vital Peter Grieco White Out JeanPaul Ferro Prudence Island Adrian S. Potter What the Dealer Didn't Tell You About Heroin Glenn Gray Mr. Universe Phil Vas Let's Split Up Matthew D'Abate I Shall Lay Beneath the Ground and You Will Walk in Sun Sean Dempsey The Date J. J. Campbell You Can Thank an Above Average Brain R.C. Edrington For Lack of Bullets Ramona Thompson The First Night That I Bleed Nancy Devine Excreta J. D. Nelson Believin' is Easy Wesley Durham Material John Grey Paranoiaville Jennifer Smythe You Know the Feeling Aimee DeLong The Book Fair Con Robert Lewis Needle Priest Dana Grandstaff Keeping it in My Pants Mike Blake Where to Now? Louie Crew View from One Porn Booth Matt Sutin The Bureaucracy of the Body Julie Kovacs Fake Mission Barton Smock Slide Rule; Mother's Notebook Foster Dickson Murder Ballad Carmelo Valone The Hustle of Being 18 Keith Wood Another Day Andrew Coburn Home Front Taylor Collier The Accident Robert Lewis Interviews Matt Richtel Daniel Irwin If Santa Were a Pirate Gina Abelkop Fell The Maya Aleathia Drehmer Brevity Jennifer Smythe Spin Charlie Dominick Bedtime Stories: A Brief Introduction Dove Cochrane Anxiety Carol Maric WaitHere Pete Simonelli Something Like Iron Lifts Ian Tichrist The Nihilsm Bible Fiona Helmsley Feed Me, I'm Yours Ron Lieback Misplaced Medication Michael Hartford Among the Moabites Debbie Kirk Punk Frickin' Rock D. Richard Scannell The Brakeman Cynthia Ruth Lewis The Advantages of Lunatic Writing E. C. Jones Lord Jim Michael Internicola The Sun is Mine Josh Olsen Faith Jamie Lin An Overdue Burial James Bodden Tarted-up Ganymedes Jaime Street That's the Power of Pine Sol, Baby Forestalls Husband's Thanksgiving Dinner Pussy Jokes Justin Hyde //at the moline illinois greyhound station// Juliet Cook Jelly Toy Saturation Doug Draime The True Story of Noah Tracy xtx False Partying Prophets Ryan Dee Gilmour Still Life in Cubicle Nicholas Morgan Adios Tony DuShane The Gun Tastes Awful J. C. Lee Butterflies and Toilettbowls Nick Ostdick Ronald Jones Loves Me John Vieczorek A Change in State Lola Nation Crammed Inn Heroin Tales F. D. Marcel 1st Time W/.38 Garrett Clark Frankie Never There Fern Capella Come to This Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal My Face Has Fallen Christopher Barnes Black Cloud in Green Sky Tony DuShane Kelly Girl Luis Rivas Terrel the Porn Star Karl Koweski The Great Funeral Home Candy Bar Heist Will Carpenter The Cold War, or Oil and Water Nicholas R. Morgan Saving the Dead Scott McCarthy Love, Take 31 Alida Santandrea Appetite Lost Miles J. Bell Ne perdez pas votre tête Phil Primeau Poppies Sean Kilpatrick We Always Bring the Chalk Paul Corman-Roberts Why I Started Writing Poetry Ellen Keffer Ye Olde Brain Tumor Jane Joyce Se7en Reasons Why People Die Scott Tienken Edward French Matthew Stokoe Cows (entire novel for free) Dan Fante Mom at 89 Christina Ginfrida A Sonnet for a Sassy Slasher Karl Koweski Holdfast, The Tyrant King John Hodges Fourteen Angels Keith Wood Doorguy Mathias Nelson Breaktime Paul Corman-Roberts A.M Fever Gary Lundy Exorcism: The Bliss of Happiness Melissa Krone Fire Allison Landa Maternal Instincts Jamie Lin Submerged Joseph P. Brennan No Title Matthew Stokoe Cows (entire novel for free) Luis Rivas Somewhere in the World Michael Internicola Shadow Man or Rico the Rock Angela Ash Melting in Your Back Seat Simon Friel Any City Michael Estabrook Chimpanzees Paul Corman-Roberts Letter To a Young Underground Poet Willie Smith Benny Saves the Day Randy Lowens The First Time Bryan Stillman Why the Spiritual Seeker and the Drug Addict Climb the Same Mountain! Michael Shannon You, Dave Eggers, Shall Know My Contempt! Patrick Carrington The Smoke of St. Anthony's James Babbs Jesus Falling Hannah Leah Strange Threats of Water Turned Up In Her Cards Kathy Polenberg The Day I Quit the Circus Michael Conrad Writing in a Bar Paul Corman-Roberts Spawn of Enron Izaak Dead Jacko Victor Schwartzman Fables Jonas Knutsson Visiting Frank Rogers Matthew Stiles Nickeless Allison Landa Milk Carton Poster Child Dana Grandstaff Autopsy-Turvy Stephen Morse Court Rules Nude Barbie Photos are Free Speech Nicole Henares Blue Snowflakes: Sketches of Sean III & V Charlie Dominick A Black Heart Procession Paul Corman-Roberts New College Graffiti Lisa Marie Kelleher Lucy P. H. Madore Drunk Again, Wondering Rochelle Moore Fancy Dress Keith Wood Godspeak Joe Brennan I'm Leaving But I Don't Have Anywhere To Go Chris Major Mother's Ruin Michelle McDannold Monkey Bars Gerald So My Father's Last Breath Melissa Silvestri Trip Like I Do Michelle McGlynn Black Comedy Delphine Lecompte The Price for not Living Theo Kipnis Stop Slowly Every Moment Dani Bauter The War Inside Him Paul Corman-Roberts Found Workplace Harrassment Cynthia Ruth Lewis I Am The Disease John Sweet In The Age of Broken Glass Eddie Kilowatt Rent Andrew Demcak Stopped Dead (for Aaron Brown) Gerald Sheagren It Was Elvis Devan Sagliani Rabbit's Last Run Joshua Scott Good Fortune J. Brundage Oblivion Gardens: Chapter Two Paul Corman-Roberts Smooth Ride M. Frias May Security at a Corporate Bookstore David Thornbrugh Sushi Worms D. B. Cox Repitition of a Song Nicholas Karavatos One June Eighty Seven Angela Ash Last Year's Jeans Raina Bird Rachel Goes Down Noah Ruderman Companion Paul Corman-Roberts Long Gone 95 Misti Rainwater-Lites King Kong Harvey Goldner New Orleans Poem for James D. Newman Taylor Collier It's Easier Robert Lewis I Didn't Know What I Was Keith Wood Down the Rabbit Hole Devan Sagliani Pray They Don't Know   Paul Corman-Roberts Late Sunday Night Rooftop Elegy for the Bench & Bar Karl Koweski Low Grade Telepathy Vanessa Silva D?Amelio Hail Hail Hookers Luis Rivas SUBMISSION NO. 92855565665648468484   Will Carpenter Isobel Shines* (part four) Luis Rivas Salvation Chris Cox The Weird Mr. Walnut   Poetry: Paul Corman-Roberts What the Condors Knew Karl Koweski Smoking Dope and Shooting Stars Keith Wood Bobbing and Weaving Tracy XTX All I Need is the Elvis Lip   Will Carpenter Isobel Shines* (part three) Craig Wallwork Scare Andrew Walton The Man with the Horn Steven J. Dines The Fifth Friend Paul Corman-Roberts Everyone Gets Well Tom Sheehan Dillinger, At the Movies Dana Grandstaff The Girl with a Brain Like a Hotel Corridor Ted Jackins This Notebook is Nearly Full Robert Guskind Love Machine Bob Shattuck Please Hold On As Sudden Stops are Sometimes Necessary Steven J. Dines Leaving on a Wide Angle Will Carpenter Isobel Shines* Keith Wood Making Soup     Paul Corman-Roberts Exorcism Keeps Us Regular Jennifer Smythe Pretend I'm Not Here Luis Rivas Hemingway at the Fire Room Willie Smith Native Tongue Will Carpenter Isobel Shines* Keith Wood Glue   Kris Saknussemm The Trust Test Paul Corman-Roberts The I Told You So Club (or "The Bronze Age Sky God's Favorite Tool) Scot Jenkins Smoke Al Bloom Harry's Time Delphine Lecompte Only Daddy Can Break Your Heart Will Carpenter He Did This to Himself or so they say   David L Tamarin Head Blown Out Miriam N. Kotzin Scar Delphine Lecompte Not Impressed by the Chalked Threats of Tight Flemish Johns Lee Reynoldson A Question of Faith C. C. Parker Ultra Maroon   Summer Sunday Death in the Summer C. C. Parker Miss America Paul Corman Roberts The Trip Delphine Lecompte Weeding Whores and Hoeing Weeds James Harris Average Guy, Average Life Theo Kipnis Art is Cognition   Paul Corman Roberts Gnarled Thing Keith Wood Tammy (A Fragment) Delphine Lecompte Woman is the Mule of the World Will Carpenter I Forget     C. C. Parker The Fertility of Death Bob Shattuck The Punk Rock Gig Delphine Lecompte God's Silence A. D. MacDonald Kidney: A Love Story Dan Fante For A   C. C. Parker Hell Willie Smith The Red Priest James Harris Being Pamela Anderson Will Carpenter I Ate the Sleep Mike Pence Amy Hempel Interview Delphine LeCompte No John Can Cramp My Style C. C. Parker Fools and Cosmonauts Delphine Lecompte Rough and Ready to Faint Jennifer Smythe Would I Dye for You? Dave Clapper Joy of Athena Robert Lewis Cockroach Daemeon Dawes Action Delphine Lecompte maff would have understood DB Cox Motion Will Carpenter say the first thing that comes into your head when you see me C. C. Parker Going Out West   Delphine Lecompte Don't Forget to Swagger C. C. Parker Mud Stacey Graham Sex for Drugs Victor Valdez People Like You & Me Rob Rosen Tasteless Joe Will Carpenter It's Where Happiness Comes to Die Karl Koweski Gramma K and the Cum Sluts of the Apocalypse C. C. Parker Dry Dani Bauter Unrequited Orgasm J. Brundage Cool Down Dan Donche Randy