Stephanie Daich
BEDROOM PRISMS -Poetry by guest author Mahvash Mohtadullah
I get out of bed, slowly, numbly The morning dopamine has not kicked in In fact, I have no sense of it I sigh … that’s never a good sign...
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Stephanie Daich
Oct 16, 20231 min read
ALTRUISM -Poetry
Seize the day, when you put someone else first. Altruism. The top of Maslow’s pyramid. Altruism. Seize the day, when you give of yourself...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 15, 20231 min read
PANAMA CANAL -Poetry
As he crossed the Isthmus, the idea did form. -A way to avoid the coastal storm. How would this land Balboa transform? A passageway could...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 14, 20231 min read
FLOATING CUBE -Poetry
Presented: a floating cube. The work of great craftsmanship. Exquisite to behold. One can easily appraise by a visual over. But they...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 12, 20231 min read
SACRAMENT OF THE SICK -Poetry by guest author Kimberly Green
Sacrament of the sick A cross was placed on my squad leader's head I prayed with all my might I wouldn’t get a cross or belly of lead...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 11, 20231 min read
50 LITERS A DAY -Poetry
Cape Town, South Africa, is in a drought. Every drop of water they must measure out. People only get fifty liters a day. Of water, they...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 10, 20231 min read
MORES CODE -Poetry
Dots and dashes Mores Code Early radio communication Mores Code The opening of the information age Mores Code Proficient way to...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 9, 20234 min read
BLUE CITY -Flash Fiction by guest author Miriam Sagan
This city is mine. I do not dream about it, nor do I see it in the daylight. It is hypnogogic, rising up brick by adobe brick as I close...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 8, 20231 min read
MACHU PICCHU -Poetry
Machu Picchu, you call me. Early Inca’s royal estate. Where did they go? What was their fate? Did they all die, or did some flee? They...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 7, 20231 min read
ADULTING -Poetry
Remember in childhood. How free, we didn’t realize. We longed to reach adulthood. Unaware of its surprise. Adulthood is drudgery. To-do...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 6, 20232 min read
SEARCHING FOR A WAY BACK HOME-by guest author CLS Sandoval, PhD
Trevor convinced me to walk down the hill, toward the canyon flanking his dad’s backyard in Tierra Santa. I wouldn’t have ventured down...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 5, 20231 min read
YERSINIA PESTIS -Poetry
Today, we call it the Black Death. Medieval times called it Blue Sickness. An epidemic spread by living breath, But mostly flea vectors...
Stephanie Daich
Oct 2, 20231 min read
EVERYTHING IS TEARS -poetry by Januário Esteves
Even if I went through the same thing, I would come back. Bringing out of the darkness the light that becomes day Well tempered by the...
Stephanie Daich
Sep 30, 202322 min read
CHAZILLION DEATH -Speculative Fiction
I am forced to kill their babies. "The grim reaper of birth," the media calls me. I didn't ask for this job. Hell, no one asks for their...
Stephanie Daich
Sep 29, 20231 min read
TAKEN- Poetry
Once a field of green, lush and wonderful; Now, a stretch of asphalt. Once trees climbed to the lowest cloud; Now, a chain-link fence....
Stephanie Daich
Sep 28, 202310 min read
VALKYRIE CALDER-BLACK WOMAN WARRIOR - Women's Fiction
I joined the Army to prove I was a badass woman -not just any woman, a warrior-black Valkyrior. "Valkyrie, you know why we named you...
Stephanie Daich
Sep 27, 20231 min read
WHERE WATER COMES FROM -Poetry by guest author CLS Sandoval, PhD
Jesus wept. John 11:35 Don’t waste water they say but there is always the same amount of water on earth but something cannot come from...
Stephanie Daich
Sep 26, 20231 min read
ON HER KNEES -Poetry
Breaking her promise Looking for something elsewhere Never settled Chasing lies She finally finds peace on her knees....
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