Pastoral

By DESPY BOUTRIS

maybe it was the year
the water dried up


RECENTLY PUBLISHED


17 Feb 2025

MICRO

Black and white photo of the upper half of a sliding health scale, the kind typically seen in a doctor's office. The photo is taken at an angle, and on one the balancing weight blocks there is a caduceus at the center in gray. The photo is by Samuel Ramos on Unsplash.

Judgment Day

By SHASPARAY

This is everything and nothing / I've never heard before.

27 Jan 2025

MICRO

Close-up photo of a field of short grass; the grass is green and there are unfocused trees in the background with the sun shining through.

Test Results

By JAYE FRISINA

...we are all breaking just the same.

13 Jan 2025

MICRO

Photo of two queen sized beds in a hotel room; between the beds is a single nightstand with two lamps mounted into the wall; the right side of the room is shadowed, and the left side has sunlight shining in through an unseen window.

Parable

By AVA CHEN

This is a survival chore.