Triolet of Zoom Impatience

Paul Jones   Can’t hear you. Your mic is muted. Look for the mic icon. It’s red. Zoom isn’t all that convoluted. Can’t hear you. Your mic is muted. Some people! Zoom is unsuited For such technophobic blockheads. Can’t hear you. Your...

Wordplay

Tamiko Dooley   You tell the maths class the joke About the taxi driver who takes Japanese people to Harrow Because that’s what they say When they get in the vehicle You were naive to think Your words would evaporate into the Musty air of that classroom And turn...

Unspoken Sacrifice

Melody Serra unspoken Melody loves to illustrate, paint, draw, write, and experiment with all sorts of art mediums. One of her favorite types of art is emaki, and one of her favorite memories is decorating her kindergarten classroom as Hogwarts using handmade drawings...

The Virgin Martyrs

Hilary Biehl   She hates them – those glass women who might be shattered but not stained. Whereas she’s unfired clay and can be pinched or smudged by any man. Impertinently pure, they hurled their own torn out tongues, trampled dragons, cracked spikes, blinded,...

A Fishy Smell

Graham Clifford   When she was at school no one looked at her so much that she popped out of existence. It was warm there. With lots of advice played on a loop and elevator music. Meanwhile, she had left a vacuum where she had been. This drew much attention and...

Perfect Walker

Charles Weld   A red fox ambles in a steady, easy gambol, back foot set in the front foot’s hole, a tread for rambling through snow cross-lots— tracks, read in the morning, a single line of dots that would seem to have required practice to place so perfectly. To...