by Melissa Llanes Brownlee

“…we sit in front of our TVs…a cathedral of cool, a soothing balm to numb us against the world.”

by Robin J. Hall

“He was a devout Christian in a management position that afforded him a little taste of authority, a perfect storm of annoying.”

by Audrey T. Carroll

“By blood or by stars, there is no control.”

by Hugh Blanton

“The verses are born from university classrooms, where instead of learning to throw literary Molotov cocktails, poets-in-training learn to ululate over thier own relections and jejune grasps of life’s complexities.”

by JD Clapp

“The dance of predator and prey never stopped here.”

by Basil Rosa

“It drove me to realize there is no single moment when we happen.”

by Lance Mason

“Balanced against a branch, rusty clippers in one hand, we snipped off the lemons just at the green “button,” so they looked special in the shops. ”

by Charmaine Arjoonlal

“I wanted my adoptive parents’ life journey to mean something. Or was it all just spilled milk?”

by Lauren Cuttler

“…maybe this is another reason I like dressing up Senior Barbie. It’s a bit like turning back the hands of time.”

by Michael McLaughlin

“No man takes me seriously. They offered me fortunes to stare at my famous navel. Silly creatures men are.”

by Thomas Belton

“It’s there - at the extremes of nature - that I find transcendence in the natural ‘point of view!’”