Categoría: little chews
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“ONCE UPON A TIME” by Benjamin Munyao David
The Story That Remembered Me Before I Was Born There are stories that begin with a birth, stories that begin with a death, and stories that begin with a lie so old that everyone mistakes it for history. This one began with a letter. Daniel Mumo found it beneath his…
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“in the morning,” by John Yamrus
in the morning, hecouldn’t decide ifhe wanted tolisten to Sonny Rollins, or Big Mama Thornton. heliked them both, butit felta whole lot better (at the time) doing nothing… justwalkinginto the kitchento make some hard-boiled eggs.
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“Windows” by Brian Michael Barbeito
I have lost my bun. I am on a far path, more of game trail as they call it, than a people path, and I reach for this bun, but it is nowhere. I have gone far, so far. It would be the perfect time for a bite. It was…
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“Moving: Simply because they can” by Snigdha Agrawal
I asked Mafor a TV of my own,to watchWimbledon reruns,Netflix movies for teens.anything…just anythingto prevent from joiningcommunal watchingin the living roomwith familysimply coz.our tastes collide too often but I saw her face stiffenbefore she even spokethat look which saidabsolutely notand I could almost readher thoughts in cursive handwritingAn enabling act.One…
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“The Boy Running With His Dreams” by John Chinaka Onyeche
Yesterday, a boy ran after a shadow. The shadow of the dreams he chased down the road as he stood on the cross-section of thousands of thoughts, remembering home, the home he vowed never to return to, except the sun rises to light the murky shadow that hovers around the…
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“Has Fecklessness Ruined Capital Punishment?” by Lot Hildegard
This is not an essay on the moral merits or demerits of capital punishment, nor does it address the question of whether the death penalty is a deterrent. This is rather a discourse on whether capital punishment is one more thing that we as a society now do so badly,…
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“Night of Wicked Splendor” by Bill Tope
“I can take you where you want to go,” he told her confidentially. Lucille stared down her prominent nose at the short man in the wildly out-of-place fedora. What, she wondered, was this bloke’s story? But she didn’t wonder too hard. The once-heavy crowd in the tavern was thinning out,…
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“The Day I Met a Gentleman” by Matias Travieso-Diaz
Mira Quien Viene por Ahí!El Caballero de París!Barbarito Diez, El Caballero de París (popular Cuban song) It was a sunny afternoon in the late spring of 1959, and I recently turned sixteen years old. Havana, and Cuba at large, were experiencing what would prove to be a short-lived period of…
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4 Short Poems by Carl Bernard Schwartz
Old School Decades before AI,My parents providedA full set of a1956 encyclopediaRight at homeLaunching this scheme:Choose a topicLocate the volumePull it outOpen it upRead what it saysIncluding referencesWrite out what you needReplace the volume to correct positionRepeat as necessary ~~ FRENCH BALLET Toilet not too far awayChicken nuggetsA bucket a…
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Featuring “The Gray Man of Smoke and Shadows (Vampire Series of Extreme Horror)” by Todd Sullivan
From the Author Giving readers what they enjoyed was a major inspiration for THE GRAY MAN OF SMOKE AND SHADOWS. In the first book in the vampire series, BUTCHERS, the narrative revolves around Sey-Mi, a newly hired vampire in an organization called the Gwanlyo. Whereas the other vampires in the…
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Featuring “A Summer to Remember” by Duane L. Herrmann
This story, A Summer to Remember, shows readers a Kansas farm family ruled by an unhinged matriarch who inflicts generational abuse on her own children, seemingly unable to change from what happened in her own life growing up. The story takes place during the summer when a farm boy is…
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“Milk” by Mykyta Ryzhykh
Milk of a killed polar bearYou drink it but I don’t know youI will never take you home with meI’m not even sure where you live in your northMeanwhile my house is sinking deeper into a cement cemetery(No one can build a foundation for themselves from roses nails) Red triangles…
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“like a bible,” by John Yamrus
like a bible, hekepta copy ofTruman Capote’sIN COLD BLOODon the table next to the bed. hehadn’tread it in years. thatstory ofthe senseless murderof 4 people on a hot Kansas night. onnightswhen hethought of it,he’d touch the coverwith his fingers, and he’d think.
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“THE DAY THE RIVER FORGOT MY NAME” by Benjamin Munyao David
When I was a child, I believed the river knew everyone. It knew the names of the women who came before sunrise carrying yellow jerrycans against their hips, the boys who crossed its shallow back every morning on their way to school, the fishermen who returned at dusk smelling of…
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“Betty’s Better Eggplant” by Carolyn Babjak
“Mom, this eggplant is fantastic. You should sell it.” “Don’t talk with your mouth full. Here, wipe your chin.” Michael slopped sauce down his chin onto his shirt. “Should I get the bib, Michael? I’m gonna buy you one for Christmas.” “This shirt is my eating shirt.” He laughed. “I…
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“Accidental Phone Pic at Shady Meadow Brooke Apts.” by Daniel J Flore III
It’s easy to spot the drug dealers coming in because five minutes later they’re on their way out. Their cars are half luxury, half sports and they disappear into and emerge from them on their phones. That’s me, in the empty parking space next to one of their cars, with…
