Let it Ride by Rex Caleval “Are you Hawkins?” asked the skinny young man. The older man at the vending machine sighed. “Let me Motherly Advice by Tina Vorreyer If, according to my mother, a metallic spoon can be utilized to kill – So can your fore-finger. The key is to A Rotten Trade by Tia Cowger A road through falling autumn leaves, narrows quickly ‘tween the trees One path into two divide, right you’ll live, left you’ll “The Forge” and “Mud” by Tim Downie The Forge Sacrifice to rebirth to sacrifice Raked ugly, spitting In the great furnaces In bellow deep breaths Human bone-coal Shoveled The Urn by Katie Collazo That wasn’t where the urn had been last night. Scott remembered putting it back on the fireplace mantel. He was Missing the Last Bus to G by Babitha Marina Justin The last bus to G scuttled past him like an over-fed kitten. He could have run behind it. But he Issue 1: March 2019 Welcome to the inaugural issue of Black Works. It has been a longer road getting here than it looked like The Glenshaw Binge by Melanie Czerwinski She picked at her fingernails as he watched. She hissed when she picked too close to the cuticle, hand flying A Christmas Presence by LindaAnn LoSchiavo The truth was I didn’t really need a book that night. My Christmas shopping was finished. Earlier I had built I Knew Her as Francine by Andy Betz Personal Journal: July 15, 1891 I knew her as Francine. In reality, I didn’t actually know her; I only knew of her. Anomalies by J.J. Fletcher Articulated. That’s what Dr. White called the brand new skeleton that moved joint by joint and was now hanging prominently Not All Figs are for Eating by Laura Walker By the time the tree turned 100, its past was so fractured that no one knew how old it was, Roots in the Cove: A Modern Fairy Tale by Mary Leoson Sunday Morning James woke on the cabin floor. The smell of pine filled his nose and an ache like a Escape Velocity by Jazmine Ellington Khaalida finds the stars fascinating. Stars form constellations, shapes. The shapes rotate through the year. Aries, Taurus, Gemini. Cancer, Leo, X by Ben Stone “He..who owns the youth, gains the future.” – A. H. Dear Representative, I’m writing to inform you of a development Hel and Other Poems by Meghann Eugley Hel The skies turned,The heavens burned.The ravens soared,The devil roared.The skies bled.The rivers ran red.The ravens fled,No longer deaths friend.Ashes Tonight by Charlotte Burnett His fingers wrap around my wrist, his grip too painful to shake off and his voice…his voice…is something I’ve never Heeled in This Dirt and other poetry by Korbin Jones for Barb, from Byron Sister, I leave you not in empty hands, as we all hold you nowtogether. Mother oak Chupacabra by J. T. Townley Don’t think I ain’t figured it out. I know what’s going on. You can’t fool me. That’s why I stocked « Previous 1 … 3 4 5 6 Next »
