Messages by Pete Mladinic In the city messengers in long black coats scuttled across an avenue. Lizard asked Uncle Baxter what were the messages. You are alone, as I am; we are […]
Dispatch #098
Dispatch #097
Disco by Colleen Curlin Ever since we locked the doors, a little orange sequin follows me around the house. Shining up at me from the closet floor, ready to twirl for the […]
Dispatch #090
Sixty Percent by Juli Lasselle The ableds are complaining. They’re doing analyses on the effects of Covid-19 lockdown isolation or close quarters with their families: the depression, the strain on relationships, the […]
Dispatch #089
INCOMING: THE GAME by Michael Brownstein The sun beckons us outside, a spring wind waves its hand, so we go–leaving the fortress into the world of confusion, disharmony, angst, and fear. Our […]
Dispatch #084
So Long to a Sorry Year by Barbara Kazdan I feel blah. Not sad. Not anything. Think I’ve depleted my reserve of good cheer. Which for me is saying a lot. All […]
Dispatch #083
Third Wave by Brenda Gunn I stare at the sock and dust bunny peeking from just far enough under the couch; a solo Cheerio, strayed somehow from the breakfast table almost made […]
Dispatch #082
Dispatches Update By Alexandra Kostoulas Well, dear readers. Here I am. Back again after a long hiatus. I keep not adding to this blog. Keep hoping that the pandemic will be over […]
Dispatch #081
The evolution, April by J.I. Kleinberg For a while, in the first months of the pandemic, you feared your hands: that they might be the engine of your destruction, grab from the […]
Dispatch #079
The Waiting Room by K.R. Morrison Sleeping awake in dream, I visited the waiting room of those always socially distanced One crew of ancestor slaves baked a cake for Saturn laughing they […]
Dispatch #078
Hallelujah by Rowena Choy Henry On the night before his inauguration I watched President-elect Biden and his wife and Vice President-elect Harris and her husband attend a ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial […]
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