The fog rolling off the Schuylkill under the low sky of clouds touching the city’s towers has freed the streets of others, allowing us to walk hand in
By Alexander Casillas“But then the mind is easily gripped, meticulously tricked, even more easily flipped. There’s a word, cocina, which means ‘sty,’ in my language, but means kitchen in another.”
By Andra Nicolescu"Now I had never been crucified, but I had been in fights, so I knew something about the amount of blood a body could produce."
By Richard Johnston“I am not looking. None of my concern, I have to remind myself. A nice, respectable citizen doesn’t care what two cops are doing because he’s done nothing
By Vytautas Malesh“Marie arrived the day of the Eiffel Tower bomb threat. She wore a giant backpack and hiking boots, as if this were the Alps instead of the Latin
By J.T. Townley"We worked, and loved, and charted ourselves, wrenching legibility and dignity from the system one Google Maps update at a time."
By Adam FlynnTo dream of a single spider / is to know you are safe from self-destruction.
By Kim Sousa"But she knows that she is not Nick Carraway, she is not reliving her beloved story."
By Regina Tavani"To further complicate matters, we are both married to white men."
By Alejandro VarelaThe plane ratchets a twinge in my intestines. / I'm reading during takeoff. Why trust the sympathetic?
By Max SchleicherYou wonder where the soul is, if this is the body. / You want to ask if it’s in the ashes in the bag / or the air
By Lauren Kayes© 2014 Blunderbuss Magazine. All rights reserved.