Space Age Mermaid
Sulily sleeps suspended inside a transparent, cylindrical womb filled with luminous blue fluid. Her suit sticks to her body like a second skin. Knobby nodes…
Author: Tonya Moore
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Lightning
If I am struck down, let it be by a thought so magnificent it changes the shape and texture of the universe; If I am…
Those Who Came Before
Mother, my father, ancestor, I didn’t ask you for these trophies of your passing; In the distant river, I caught those city-skeletons in netted caravans;…
Avatar
Does the avatar sit still upon the sand dunes lamenting the scarred whales with their beautiful, sad eyes? Do you see sea unicorns piercing starlight?…
Shelter
Twilla’s Beast was hollow-bellied. The lumbering juggernaut, a comfy shelter custom-built for her. Light years away from home, they were fighting a war waged in…
Stigmatic Young Gods
He’s a cliché, the all too solemn, emotionally vampiric type. Burdened by the nose ring, the deviant sex habit, and the penchant for poisoning his…
Mermaid
Say the only dream you ever had was blue, a cool brilliance that engulfs everything in the universe. All you know of your place in…
Tribute
Rastaman gone astray, the devout artist had adopted flesh for his canvas. Everything about him was dark, including the curl of his brows. Including his…
Twilight
As twilight approaches, I watch the moon and wait while my pen runs away from cliché’s into the silence behind my ribs; I loved the…
Till Dust We Become
Once wither winds fell our brittle towers and come the dread horsemen devoid of mirth, trampling upon ill-fated flowers; Misery shall dwell upon the cold…