Mini Bike You had this mini bike with an engine the size of a lawnmower It sounded like a chain saw buzzing up and down the street The one time I rode it the fucking thing shot out from under me when I hit the accelerator and smashed into a tree Your dad drained allContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Dan Holt”
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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Merritt Waldon
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R. P. Verlaine
The Accomplice and I This journey of crimes imagined yet incomplete we’ve chosen to call love dares us to improvise traversing the unknown taking terminal risks. Hope slandered to ruins between purloined kisses the strangers we corrupt until desire’s arson cools with passage of time and endless repetition. All counterfeit truths we exchange in language Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: R. P. Verlaine”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Alicia Mathias
BEWITCH hearts dip into death just for a taste, a reprieve from breath, yet now they are lost. skulls flicker with obsession flirt hard with silence, to end its ache. all our burning questions never had the answer; were only distractions from the fact, that timeContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Alicia Mathias”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Danny D. Ford
“by yourself, never left alone”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Ragan
Star-Crossed I never thought I’d be in my 30’s, throwing rocks at a woman’s second-story bedroom window. First night out the pen in two years, and they were going to lock me back up for vandalism. It sucks when your girlfriend gets kicked out of her apartment and has to move back in with herContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Ragan”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: S.A. Gerber
Another Realm The roses erupt and the clouds burn above and below. Seeking refuge from an ominous gray mist attempting to strangle thought. Two hours in the tavern cannot diffuse the terror. Too many blood- red eyes reflecting all sad truths. Some clarity claws through the cobwebs saying that someone spoke of a ‘center’ toContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: S.A. Gerber”
VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Andrew Darlington
The Black Venusian Scrotum-Worm Beyond the plague damned world… (1) He awakes. Something is knocking at the sky, trying to get in. She lies beside him. She hears nothing other than his breath, his heartbeat, the warm pulse of blood in his veins. He rises with a curious sense of unease. An endless golden day.Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Andrew Darlington”
