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Tag: rain

“Non-Belonging” by Dr. Koshy AV

Posted on August 26, 2019

When it was the fashionI too measured out my life in coffee spoons It was not only to youthat some things made no sensebut to me tooFor you it was […]

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“The God of Good Things” by Snata Bose

Posted on September 3, 2018

The rain cut me a river wide enough to savour my numbered gardens— each with their own cloud. And in each I bred a different flower— a single rose: blood […]

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“The Hitchhiker” by Michael T. Smith

Posted on April 16, 2018

It was late enough that she didn’t even feel tired anymore. Clarissa squinted so hard her eyes hurt.  She tried see through the fogged-over windshield as the onslaught of rain […]

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“a blason from the crossfaded” by Connor Chapman

Posted on April 10, 2017

A very pretty girl wears the same brown clogs every day sometimes. Between all the rain-soaked steps we took and the part where she left, she joked, “These are my […]

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“Twilight’s Crescendo” by Ken Allan Dronsfield

Posted on March 13, 2017

absent of pearls in a grand ocean mollusk crying self righteousness without salty tears seeking to find truth in an unrelenting fervor see the dark drift in during a twilight […]

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“Bathsheba Beckons” by Fred Owens

Posted on May 16, 2016

Tom Blethen faced two fifty foot rows of potatoes. He looked up at the December sky. It had rained, the field was all muddy, and it was going to rain again. […]

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“It is Tuesday, November 3rd & I am Alive by Whatever Means Necessary” by Torrin Greathouse

Posted on February 8, 2016

Lightning strikes like the silhouette of the city and for a moment, the air blisters with Saint Elmo’s fire over the Arby’s sign.   The pitch black sky thunders like […]

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