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WarConsequenceCover
November 6, 2023  |  By . In Fiction, Flash Fiction

Fiction FEATURED AUTHOR: Ruth Ticktin’s Returned

At a stuffy banquet honoring soldiers who fought the Great War, a man approached Mollie and whispered in her ear. “Casualties, thousands needing immediate treatment. Transporting them to an old monastery. Working crazy, all hours. Death, over and over.” His head drooped low. “Too many dying. We loaded soldiers on stretchers, train cars to makeshift […]

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September 6, 2023  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: Blue Pines by Scott Thomas Outlar

Blue Pines I consulted my stars during a dry spell in the plains they told me to lie down in the grass make a blanket of the leaves told me to build a fire in the season when the sky grows cold told me age is just a number until it kills you warm in […]

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An AI oil painting of a young couple, man and woman, hugging and
June 21, 2023  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: Afraid to Ask You by Kyle Singh

Afraid to Ask You Now that you are closer to me than I could have ever imagined it is not love that I have come to with its seeming dependencies and lack of impurity still this fulfillment I cannot get rid of still longing when there is nothing to long flailing into the fact that […]

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May 10, 2023  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: The Book of Never My Always, Overdue by Bobby Parrott

The Book of Never My Always, Overdue My Bible spits out Republicans brandishing Bazookas and hand-grenades. I think they’re from the Book of Revelations, because of that whole Armageddon thing. But when a new bar of soap feels more like an old friend to my nose, the hand-worn pages of all my ancestors splay out […]

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