An Incident on Bernard Boulevard

Traversing Bernard Boulevard at night, she longed to escape her loneliness. An effulgence of light illuminated from the sky and lifted her off the pavement. She smiled, her arms outstretched. Rubbing their hands together gleefully, the six-eyed aliens from a far off galaxy, awaited the arrival of their newest female specimen. And then she arrived.

Forever Hers

Story By Poet Rummager Her name was Cara, and she loved boys. Barely seventeen years old, she had already suffered the twinges of an abandoned heart. Her father left home when she was seven, and no other man could fill his shoes. There was a photo of him on the night stand; a crumpled reminder

You Can’t Drink It Away

He drank heavily.  Forget who you are and what you’ve done. Keep your eyes down and don’t look at it. His plan failed. The full moon mocked him as he stumbled outside; his head spinning and his claws scraping the ground. He growled at a pink elephant in the distance.   *A “pink elephant” is