Prose

Cannibal’s Call
The cannibals call from down the hall SACRIFICE!! To save our lives Or civilization will fall The end begins when the maws open wide
By Atomic Historian7 months ago in Poets
Disappearing From His Grip. Runner-Up in Instructions for Disappearing Challenge. Content Warning.
Begin by apologizing for what you haven't done. - Apologize for all the noise. You shouldn't have laughed so loud, or had the audacity to breathe,
By Autumn Stew7 months ago in Poets
Instructions For Becoming a Mother
Wake before your body is ready. Feed the baby. Feed the silence. Feed the despair. Forget you were hungry to begin with.
By Autumn Stew7 months ago in Poets
Transit
The bus leaves without me. I don’t run. There’s a bakery across the street I’ve never been inside. I don’t go in. Instead I stand there,
By Brie Boleyn7 months ago in Poets
Fortune Cookie
The truth is no longer fundamental It is no longer relevant It is no longer the truth Truth has been reduced to a scrap of paper
By Laerilee7 months ago in Poets
The Space That Hungers
What's this space that lives between our silence? A hungry void waiting for a whimper. Tomorrow's empty belly yearning for a feast.
By Soul7 months ago in Poets
Fragile
6/26/25 The mailman stuffs our bills haphazardly again in wall-trapped timeworn cages that damn near come off the hinges every time I turn the key and
By Olivia Dodge7 months ago in Poets
Damning Truths. Content Warning.
Your insidious words ringing in my ears, day after day, plaguing me at all hours. Inescapable droning tinnitus, that leaves me clawing at the wretched pealing holes in my head. The laughing, always the laughing as I cry. Wailing in abject misery and terrific pain, and crawling on my knees, begging for release from your sadistic games and legalistic contracts.
By K.B. Silver 7 months ago in Poets
A BREATH BETWEEN EARTHS. Content Warning.
A Breath Between Earths Earth 12 remembered. Earth 19 burned. This is the inhale between them. Sometimes the body speaks before the story does.
By Vicki Lawana Trusselli 7 months ago in Poets
Indefinable
I love the moment when I can find that stillness, when my body no longer feels like a weight that I have to carry, and it feels like whatever it is
By C.M.Dallas7 months ago in Poets
The Smile You Bought
The Smile You Bought You called me wicked, said it like a prayer, as if breaking me was some kind of dare. I smiled, I swear I did,
By Marie381Uk 7 months ago in Poets
Attitude: The Crownless King
In city suits and tinted shades, they strut with hollow pride, Their voices trimmed in accents false, their egos open wide.
By Muhammad Abdullah7 months ago in Poets