Three Poems By Brian J. Alvarado
future sight traded away with haste and rare candies to bring you growth returned with two toes towards the future […]
Mr Wimpy Stood on My Foot and Taylor Wimpey Took Away Our Meadow
I remember nineteen eighty-three,my fifth birthday.We were all having a pretty fine time at Wimpy’suntil the proprietor,a giant of a […]
A Red, Red Pokeball
My love is like a red, red pokeballThat’s newly spun in JulyMy love is like the lure moduleThat’s sweetly played […]
When a Man is Like Don Draper
“That poor girl. She doesn’t know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.” – Betty Francis […]
Two Poems By Courtenay S. Gray
beauty in the world After American Beauty (1999) we talk about life as we talk about death, with a fondness […]
The Fall of Phaeton, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Watch Jeff Bezos Launch into Space
There is beauty in failing: the rested arch of Phaeton’s body in Ruben’s masterpiece seems to slip from his chariot […]
I, Dr. Frankenstein, Would Like to Be Known for My Other Accomplishments
Dearest friends, I, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, am writing this letter because I have had an inordinately difficult time these past […]
Flibbertigibbets and Side-Hustles
You asked me what I would do with this time; these months, these aching months (even for those of us […]
Summer Sonics
She listened with one eye closed. I devoured with one nostril open. She minueted around the flat, flattening F and […]
Get Your Palate Ready For…. Insects!
Insects are rising on the food chain just like the bile in your throat at the thought of eating them. […]
My Best Friend, the Pizza Delivery Man
Monday Ordering pizza for one on a Monday evening isn’t okay, is it? I mean, it’s allowed, but it doesn’t […]
Natasha Romanoff Died Because She Had No Kids or Spouse
and somehow the fact that two men wrote the Endgame screenplay confirms it, because of course they’d give a man […]
We Tried Giving These Women Charlize Theron’s Bowl Cut and, Spoiler Alert, They Do Not Look Good
Charlize Theron is someone who can rock all the most daring hairstyles, ones that make us normal women look like […]
The Gospel of Shawshank
For Jesus to appear we require three entities – a female, a male and an ambiguous Even here, it were […]
Sorry darling, the one I want to marry is that non-romanceable NPC in your route!
I want a fairy tale. Just not with you, darling. It’s not that you are flawed or whatsoever. No, no. […]
Unrequited Follow on a #writerslift
I thought you’d click the little button. I didn’t think we needed to read all each other’s stuff, message back […]