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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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Schloss Dhaun castle Germany. Statue Prometheus of 1888 by Prof. Robert Cauer the Younger. Robert Cauer the Younger was son and pupil of Karl Cauer. In 1889 he was a portraitist in St. Louis.
June 9, 2023  |  By . In Fiction, Flash Fiction

Fiction: Lightbringer by Louis Richey

I have gone by many names. They called me Forethought, once. Then they called me Traitor, Creator, Lightbringer. I call myself Prometheus. Even I do not remember just how ancient I am. I lived before the gods, when we Titans ruled the heavens and the earth. One day, the gods emerged from the darkness, an […]

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May 15, 2023  |  By . In Fiction, Novellas

Fiction: Cheri Coke: Section Six by James C. Stewart

The statement echoed—as did the realization this would be the natural assumption, even if the news wasn’t reporting a seizure of cash. Hell, for all I knew, those in the shadows might even think a cop (or cops) had stolen the cash, hence no mention of it in the news. The dread eased back a […]

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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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