The Camel Saloon

by Ross Vassilev another cancer Monday and you’ll see a light in the sky pulled by an old man wearing dumpster shoes and the brick wal...

by Emily Ramser A senior in a black bra made me a screwdriver that tasted like furniture polish, and I doubled over crying because I...

by Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco During the last storm the rain made islands on the windshield: clear and round as forming questions. ...

by Amy Soricelli if i could wear my name like black cloth across your back i would stamp down hard the misery in each letter - the solid ...

by Tom Montag Wind-beaten light in clotted sky. Some days you turn back and behind you find nothing. Some days you do not turn. A...

by Ali Znaidi The solar system hasn’t got any idea about ‘the wretched of the earth,’ or the oppressed, otherwise the sun wouldn’t ...

by Linda M. Crate she claws at you with such desperation i feel sorry for her. i wonder if this is what i must have looked like to everyo...

by Emily Ramser I stopped to buy a toothbrush, so I could kiss my girlfriend, but the cashier couldn’t stop contemplating my sex life, ...

by Ross Vassilev I remember walking home from work streets littered with the broken bottles of the past and there was my fat queer bo...

by J.J. Campbell slice your own birthday cake with a bloody knife pretty women that look like movie stars aren't from around ...

by Jon Bennett The day bartenders don’t make much but it’s not like they could work anywhere else. “Didn’t you move to Florida?” I ask...

by Mary C McCarthy This is all new to me- a world that follows the rules, time that piles up evenly, without blanks and bursts to tric...

by Alexis M. Pacheco What would the boy look like at twenty-nine, would his hands look the same as the hands that hold mine, would  hi...

by Emma Lee The driver in front did definitely not want to be startled back into this world of morning commutes and timetables as he da...

by Donal Mahoney These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes and walke...

by Marchell Dyon She is a daughter of Eve She has no need of God She is rebellious as she is head strong Even when she was a child she...

by Umm-e-Aiman Vejlani The parrot puts on its green coat – lime, unspotted, smooth, even-coloured, featherless, a neck long and gracefu...

by KJ Hannah Greenberg It’s enough that I sweat, waft moisture away, Expect customers to demand monies back, Bring pet gerbils to family...

by Marc Carver She could see the look in my eyes as I tried to pull the tears back in that hatred the pity.. Nothing really mattered ...

by larry jones someone jabs a pregnant sow with an iron gate rod, she ain't moving fast enough. someone kicks a boar in the head, ...

by Marc Carver  On my way to the pub I looked down on the ground. There was a packet with some tablets left in it, so I picked them up...

by Paul Tristram She was on 24 hour suicide watch, couldn’t take a bath, piss or shit without a female nurse present. They’d caught her...

by Ezhno Martin My first job taught me that pretending to be Jewish isn't a solid long term strategy and my second job that adults...

by Laura Kaminski Small, soft-shelled thing still encased in a pale leather orb -- the moon looks just like you do, mostly round. Th...

by Sandy Hiortdahl Steel wheels Thunder onward, Train speeds through the hollow, A Coal God’s fierce, joyous whistle, Nightly.

by Kelley Jean White My father and I on our knees beside the lake, Winnipesaukee, April first nearly ice out, eighteen inch-deep chunks ...

by Brian Burmeister In Garsila, there are brick walls Scarred black without roofs, Metal cauldrons Surrounded by piles of ash. Good o...

by Donald Brandis trees most stubborn persist their silence is linked hands among these campsites no notice? watch it run beneath scr...

by Scott Silsbe The other night, up at your place again, I hope that you didn’t think me too rude when I, drunk off so many boozy beers,...

by KJ Hannah Greenberg Daughters of physicians, engineers, university teachers, and junior military officers, Moved to better apartments ...

by Janet I. Buck Clouds are gray/green bottoms of an artichoke. A connoisseur of vegetables will tell you getting near the stem is wher...

by Donal Mahoney In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house ...

by Jay Passer bent back on the edge of the bed at the Hotel Paradise. the hum of garbage truck alleyway vibrates oily windowpane, ar...

by Marc Carver I look into the darkened bent window of the tube The people have two reflections, one upside down planted on top of a nor...

by J.J. Campbell dip your fists in my blood and create some new scars on this body may my death be as sweet as the nectar on you...