G Categories Poetry May, 2018 Garden of the Restless Martyrs ceramic mustard and ivory shells cradled in fruit skins and ashes once we were doll heads and now we are only ourselves we seem to..
J Categories Poetry May, 2018 Jane Doe Just a few broken bits of bone Some scraps of cloth and a hair or two Marked and placed in plastic bags Is all that..
O Categories Fiction May, 2018 Oh, Cardinal Directions! You’ll be the father of nations. Genesis 17:4 I. Ginny listened for the door and keyless lock of her husband’s car, but Leonard Cohen heard..
t Categories Poetry May, 2018 the eclipse and the exorcism It began then, during the ten wet nights of red crabs clawing at the moon, a nymph that had just drowned in a maelstrom; the..
T Categories Fiction May, 2018 The Last Message Parking next to her neighbour’s faded BMW, Arpita stepped out of her car and locked it. In her hand was a loaded carrier bag. She..
C Categories Fiction May, 2018 City of Coincidences Several days a week I would go to a little Internet café down under Avenue Mohammed V. I’d do my business, talk to Allal, pack..
A Categories Non-Fiction May, 2018 A Series of Backhanded Compliments “Before I met you, south Indian people made me cringe.” Just as my roommate uttered one of her most ignorant remarks to date, I bit..
S Categories Poetry May, 2018 Street Lamp When the opaque dusk swells, The broken street lamp’s Pearlescence of glass shards, Overshadows the warmth of light bulb The night is the unsung..
G Categories Fiction May, 2018 Garlic Boy The screams and cries are loudest at night and aggravate the inmates who encourage the predators and fantasize about the fate of the prey. It..
I Categories Poetry May, 2018 I set out to paint the light I set out to paint the light when it grows soft at summer’s end, but could not wrap my thoughts around the immensity of neglect..