Helen Bowie

“Around the sixtieth beat, the Twin Peaks music drifts into my consciousness; I feel it in my veins.”

Palmer Smith

Wait about four days to respond
to a short text like “how r u?”
and make sure to write
“everything is fine.”

Adam Chabot

“He gets it. He knows what “sick” means. He’s felt it. But it’s a terrible line.”

Aaron Sandberg

Christmas lights or a house on fire? Depends on how you look at it.

Gale Acuff

“If I was a cow I could moo the Lord's Prayer for all to hear. But still, sooner or later, they'd eat me.”

John Chrostek

“May the good growth, the better way
take its place come the spring.”

Kendra King

“I may not be an artist, but I wanted to record what went through my mind, in the best way I could (with my son's Crayola set) and not worry about what I am, how good I am, or what I am not.”

Noeme Grace C. Tabor-Farjani

“I miss my mother.             I might visit her today.”

Justin Rovillos Monson

“If a race war pops off, we all know what it is” 

Alan Ten-Hoeve

A father finds that the pandemic has let him fall out of old mundane habits, and he’d give anything to have that innocuousness back.

Shawn Berman

“and i can’t afford to be out in inclement weather without

health insurance these days”

Ashley Venus Vaello

“How do you grieve and grapple with the memory of what you thought a person was versus who they really were? Can both be true?”

Today’s gonna be a long day. Here’s a very nice picture of a duck.

Steven Luna

“‘She’ll be ok,’ I responded, and had to convince her not to rush to New York to care for Abuela. At the time, we didn’t know what she had.”

Jason de Koff

"The guy pushed all the buttons
the day he left office."

Issis Paloma Sanchez

“Soon we must all become mermen, or drown.”

Stephanie Gaitán

“He keeps coming back to me, as thoughts, in dreams. I chalk it up as induced by social distancing. Pain finds its way to the surface when everything is still, an easy ocean to traverse.”

Shaily Castillo

Last year's blast is the severed head of Mrs. Johnson.

Shannon Frost Greenstein

“Don’t even get me started
on the radioactive ones.”  

Shawn Berman