Stories

Reflections of the past, realities of the present, and hopes for the future. These aren't prompts, and anything could wind up here, from poetry to monologues. It's all about words, and the forms they lead us to.

Jacob and Christian have been best friends since high school. Christian is getting married soon, so they spend one last weekend together in Jacob's cabin to celebrate. But a chance encounter with three unknown men will change their lives irrevocably.

Welcome! To a place where it walks like a poetry and other writings, quack like one but does not sit like poetry.

There is no aim for this writing.

The heavens are vast and full of unknown.

Contain things that are not poetry.

It's been three years since Josh first came out to this park right by the lake to help a friend of his to build a playground as a part of his Boy Scout Eagle Project. A weekend where he met Sawyer for the very first time...and fell head over heels for him right away. That first crush can be...well...intense. Hehehe! So what happens with Josh and Sawyer after that? And what happens now that they've come back three years later for the anniversary of that weekend? Let's find out.

The day after Tombstone, Arizona's most famous gun battle, A.J. Ritter, the undertaker responsible for preparing the bodies of the victims, meets a young man who worked for the Clantons.

Kevin and Gary discovered each other while playing baseball for Long River High School. In their last two years of high school, they had a very intense relationship, planning a life together. Upon graduation, contact was lost as they went separate ways: one to university and the other to the US Army. What follows is what happens when their paths finally cross forty years later.

Strolls; encounters; kisses through closed gates; lighted windows seen from below; rumpled bedsheets turning up men’s shirts . . . These are just a few of the images in August Stramm’s poetry collection titled “DU” (“THOU”).

What follows is a complete, fresh-look translation of the thirty-one poems of this set.

I'd crushed on other guys before, my cousin Jericho was my first experience with pure, unadulterated love.

Avery comes across a new partner months after having broken-up with his cheat of an ex, Alonso. Is his body's rebounded sensitivity a response to Clint's proximity, or has Ave not fully gotten over his ex?

When an otherwordly anomaly swallows Times Square on April 13 of 2018, New Yorkers all over the city are forced to confront a reality that is rapidly collapsing on itself. Each chapter of this multigenre anthology follows a different character at different points in time during an ongoing Apocalypse.