Categoría: little chews
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“The Autopsy of Julius Caesar” by Kayla Miller
I wonder about who performed the first recorded autopsy,The one who had to look at Caesar’s cadaver.Did his hands shake or tremble as he cut?Did his mind wander to how another blade pierced the emperor?Did he plan out how he’d announce the news to the public,That their leader was struck…
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“San Pedro Song of the Factory” by Lance Mazmanian
Summer sparkle curve. Night arc panoramic. Windows wrap quartz to coastal Pacific storm; her darling song has a starlight edge here and there, over sea. A modular artist through the albums she’s made, her “Factory” tune a holiday paint dappling car insides in colors warm and sorta scissor-snipped, and no…
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Final Day of the Chinese New Year by Barbara Olmtac (Photos) and Christina Chin (Poetry)
The final day of the Chinese New Year festivities is the Lantern Festival (元宵节, Yuánxiāo Jié), which falls on the 15th day of the lunar calendar. The 15th day of Chinese New Year in 2026 falls on March 4, 2026.
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5 Rain Poems by Yongbo Ma
Drinking Alone on a Rainy Night In Jinling, I drink alone the wine from my hometownevery drop of rain turns into wine, wine without a shadowevery spate of rain is a discourse, now slow, now hurriedI respond with silence, well aware that such nightswill recur again and again, and one…
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“The heart-wrenching cries of a street cat” by Pegah Rahmati Nezhad
an orange street catsearches the whole regionover and over againmeowing out loudfor days and nightspersistentlyin hope of findingone or maybe moredear lost babiesoh my goodnessi wish i could understandfeline languagei wish i could soothethis restless souli wish i could helpdo something at leastbut i cannoti can’t and it hurtsmy heart…
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Video 8 “a butterfly on my skin, Book 2” by Christina Chin and M. R. Defibaugh
“a butterfly on my skin, Book 2,” is free to download. Here’s the link to the chapbook, which includes an intro and wonderful review by a prominent President of the British Haiku Society and a Japanese shortforms editor, Jerome Berglund. https://ko-fi.com/s/2346b3af9c
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Chapter 4 of “Bruised but unbroken” by Alissa Brown
Content Warning: Violence Blue eyes Two weeks pass at my job, and I seem to be doing quite well. All my money is taken away. Gavin doesn’t allow me to keep any, but he has no idea how much I make from tips, so I hide part of it in…
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“it was hard” by John Yamrus
it was hard notto stare. i mean,that was onehell of a scar, andshe didn’t try to hide it. andwhy should she?she got it fair and square, andthat damn sumbitchweren’t ever gonna try that again. not ever.
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“1962: It’s Always the Girl’s Fault” by DC Diamondopolous
Blindfolded, Donna and Wendy sat in the backseat of a Ford Fairlane. Donna shuddered at the thought of lying on a slab of wood, bleeding to death. At every turn, their shoulders collided. Wendy touched her hand. Not wanting her little sister to feel her sweaty palm, Donna put her…
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“Depression is a quiet room” by Carol Anne
Some mornings arrive like closed curtains—light pressing at the edgesbut never quite entering. I wake beneath a ceilingthat feels miles above me,as if gravity has thickened in the night,and every breath must be pulledthrough water. Depression is not always a storm.Sometimes it is a quiet roomwhere the clock ticks loudly,and…
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Video 7 “a butterfly on my skin, Book 2” by Christina Chin and M. R. Defibaugh
“a butterfly on my skin, Book 2,” is free to download. Here’s the link to the chapbook, which includes an intro and wonderful review by a prominent President of the British Haiku Society and a Japanese shortforms editor, Jerome Berglund. https://ko-fi.com/s/2346b3af9c
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“Man Oh Man, the Descendent” by Colin James
Based on research results,there is no evidenceto support that greasingthe upper lip isan old Viking trick.As far as theories whichhave been proved factual,their stride length ison average one, almosttwo centimeters longerexponentially than youraverage Celt. This wasdetermined by measuringtibia length and comparingarch apex to arch horizontal.Bones from sometimes thesame archeological sitehave…
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“I don’t wish to grow” by Snigdha Agrawal
The ten-year-old said,“Gramps, I don’t want to grow a moustache.”“Why, dear?”“Because then I’ll grow old.And if I grow old, I’ll die.I want to stay exactly as I am.”He said it in all innocence,as though time were a doorhe could refuse to open.I laughed then,softly.But later, the words returned,heavy with a…
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