Butterfly Blooming
November 7, 2018
For one moment, just this one, | Corruption squashed by a new life begun.
Category: Wednesday
Microvilli
October 31, 2018
Join this week's featured fiction writer, Camille as she explores the horrors of Radiation on the human body and psyche.
So are we doing this or What?
October 31, 2018
Featured Poet, Caroline Greenberg explores intimacy and time in this week's poem.
The Fallen Squirrels
October 24, 2018
Once when my sister and I were young kids, our parents took us to Audubon Park. We played on the playground we called “The Surprise,” because when the structure was built it contained a big slide, real swings, monkey bars, and even a rickety bridge. Our parents brought us to the park as they always […]
Love Poem, October in New Orleans
October 24, 2018
So we have found ourselves in this crazy town waiting for the autumn that never comes. You are my perennial summer. You do to me what rain does with light, whispering color into the sky. I have collected ecstasies but this is the kind that lasts– your pine-green eyes. We’ve found ourselves […]
Crescent Calling
October 17, 2018
Because there was fracture and friction, I sang. Caught in a prism of pastel pains, punctured through and through with dull threaded needles of dread and suffering, a product of the nimble fingers of sinners seeking absolution, a patchwork child. I remember the soft, gentle ache of a sad thing, the warm shadows of mourning […]
Left to Weather
October 17, 2018
I wonder if you think of me if you see my face at all I wonder if I’m on your thoughts a flash of color at night I wonder if you hear my name, do you think of my laugh? I wonder if you’ll miss me soon if you’ll wonder where I am I want […]
‘Lectric Water Fish
October 10, 2018
Ztu Taylor shares an original short story as part of Big Easy's literary Wednesdays.
Unrequited Love Prayer
October 10, 2018
It often seems in life, Beauty is terribly outweighed by pain. Love is only met with strife, And getting up each day is a strain. It seems like people are shit, And God and Hope are lies. Like trust is a joke, And our only purpose is to die. But every once in a while […]
Tangible Voids
October 3, 2018
For even one moment the birds stopped cackling The bugs went to sleep The dogs all sat and listened The silence of an empty mind The echo of a soul gone sad It passed through windswept streets snow blown against warm panes People in chairs and couches huddled close to crackling fires The void of […]
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