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VOICES FROM THE FIRE: James Maj

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Efe Tusder

INNER DEMON CONTRACT I know. You are in there. In the Q-zone. Your life wasn’t a gift. Something went wrong and you failed. You didn’t have to be successful. But right now you have a second chance. Don’t be afraid my friend. I am your inner demon. We will make you a ruthless bastard asContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Efe Tusder”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Wilson

Bored With Nihilism I’m bored with nihilism. I push colossal boulders and smile on occasion. I see Camus’s face in the stone. The meaninglessness of it all cleanses the detritus of my question-mark soul. Now there is nothing. I couldn’t be happier. The Nightmares Of Clocks My nightmares are perpetual as the clocks within, revolvingContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Robert Wilson”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Chad Christopher Dixon

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo

Zombie Nothing is as before. Since that fateful day people have gone crazy. I’m not saying it became, but it has become, which means that those events continue to affect our present. I have received one last mission, to cross the portal and spread the temporary powder. But how?. Before continuing with this story IContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Samir Karimo”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Cynthia Scott

Cindy Poems Lighting fickles and cool downpours of silken whereabouts sliding doors to countless encounters of flesh pounded into love wet degraded unearth triangular flies and hopped-up bunnies looking for ragweed time capsules Where is fairyland ? Sodden nightmares that quake with resistance unilateral timekeepers await further instructions helium balloons full of piss and cumContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Cynthia Scott”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Paul Warren

Kinder Times The Angels are reflected in the water.Dirty faces with sad eyes.Their wings are broken.Their hair matted.When they are close you can smell their decay.Try not to look into the water, it will only remind you of kinder times.

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rita Recine

Yesterday’s Prose It was only yesterday Voices were heard, stories were told Family, friends to hug as well as hold All came to a stand still The day corona virus decided to intermingle Single handily the globe, left out into the cold Today this land is no longer our land Together we stand ToContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Rita Recine”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter

Victoria Coach Station-Isle of Wight. An inexplicable indoor wind whips litter around my feet and bags.A newly docked Coach, it’s hot tyre smell reminds me of the roads back home in Summertime.Though we are deep in November, nearly December.Coaches smell of Summer, years of my childhood on a tourist island where Coaches abound, andContinue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Stephen Whitter”

VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman

I Am an Oracle In 2025 the United States as we know it will cease to exist. In 2042 I will die, alone and impoverished, in a shoddy facility set up, quickly and haphazardly, to house the elderly and terminally ill. Between those two events, my wife will die of a medical emergency. In 2070,Continue reading “VOICES FROM THE FIRE: Ethan Goffman”