Tag Archives: Death

Fly Away Home

Fiction by Joseph Allen Costa

{Apr 9, 2018}

There was purity and punishment to fighting and a release valve at the end of his fists.

OR…

Sometimes birds lose their way or have an accident.
Sometimes they become victims of predators.… more

The Bass

Fiction by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

{Sep 28, 2017}

I know I can get better if I want to. Everybody can get better if they want to. At the Duck Thru the black ladies are talking ‘bout the Bradley man that used to be sheriff in Halifax County. He killed himself yesterday. Melissa’s rescue squad was called out to it. They say he… more

Virgil Palely Loitering

Fiction by John Patrick McShea

{May 8, 2017}

“Your cock looks all right, kid,” he said. “I wouldn’t worry about a thing.”… more

James, Transcendent, Everyone Else, Stuck in the Mud

Fiction by Jimmy Petard

{Nov 11, 2016}

When Mary finds him, she’s going to punish him. He will inadvertently disarm her probably, she knows, imagining a headfirst hug at the bottom of the slide, a tangled pile, wheezing and wild with laughter. The smiling cherub laughs, anger wilts.… more

ROUND TABLE: THE DEATH OF PRINCE

- by Christopher Wolford, Jared Yates Sexton, Jim Warner

{Apr 22, 2016}

“There are writers and poets who called into question the tenants of life, but it’s popular artists, and popular acts like Prince that really did this in such a widespread way… more