T Categories Fiction July, 2018 The Hawk Jeff Mason hung up the store phone, pleased. He’d convinced a brokerage firm downtown to hold a Hawaiian Nights event; every employee at the brokerage..
C Categories Creative Non-Fiction Non-Fiction July, 2018 Crooked Aesthetics It is 2012. My youth group in church does not invite me to a party because they think I am too weird, and that my..
S Categories Fiction July, 2018 Someday It’s 5 AM. Somewhere in the climax of your dream you had an anxiety attack. So you wake up – exhausted from sleep apnea, acidity..
T Categories Poetry July, 2018 The snow falls forever Woken again in the fifth hour to darkness, and memories of a shattered voice who cannot leave his lover, and from the pretty recent past..
s Categories Poetry July, 2018 serendipitous a timeworn legend, this is regarding an avowal of destiny and karma, or call it, kismet and fate that assure nothing but, a soul mate..
M Categories Poetry July, 2018 Madonna of the blue sky long finger-nails cream hands and a smile that drives you to hell and beyond, there’s a boy out there who calls me Madonna we’re back..
B Categories Poetry July, 2018 Body Oriented Reassurance rests on the tendon joining humerus to ulna and brother radius, a plain broad enough to set up cup and saucer in the correct..
R Categories Non-Fiction June, 2018 Remembering Bargemusic – A Love Story I wrote this piece in 1996, in the early years of Bargemusic, before its full flourishing and when it was still possible to get a..
T Categories Poetry June, 2018 The Little You Know About Yourself The best of you is rare explosives are what it makes, The places you’re destined to reach was screened by design, The little you know..
A Categories Poetry June, 2018 A vignette from a town of triumph I looked through a pinhole in an antiquated room with an inverted umbra of an aged easterly spire, the mysterious upside-down shadow had me consumed..
T Categories Poetry June, 2018 The Faucet The faucet in our kitchen is getting old I had touched it When we came to see the apartment The first one of our married..
T Categories Fiction June, 2018 The Night Chores This story won the first prize in the prose competition of Alcheringa festival's Zephyr literary event.
T Categories Fiction June, 2018 The Chair This story won the third prize in the prose competition of Alcheringa festival's Zephyr literary event.
B Categories Poetry June, 2018 Blue Hue This poem won the first prize in the poetry competition of Alcheringa festival's Zephyr literary event.
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..