50 LITERS A DAY -Poetry
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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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 4 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 2 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 22 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 10 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
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, 2023
- 1 min
ON HER KNEES -Poetry
Breaking her promise Looking for something elsewhere Never settled Chasing lies She finally finds peace on her knees....
Stephanie Daich
- Sep 25, 2023
- 1 min
EVERYTHING IS BARELY TOUCHED-Haibun Poetry by guest author Barbara Anna Gaiardoni
I can hear the winds murmur, they wonder where you are. Everything is quiet. A flake pops off and spins away. I'll lie in the long grass,...
Stephanie Daich
- Sep 23, 2023
- 1 min
FROM HANDS TO SOUL -by guest author CLS Sandoval, PhD
Even when I was little I could recognize the age in my great-grandmother’s hands The skin was paper thin and spotted with large brown age...
Stephanie Daich
- Sep 21, 2023
- 1 min
Scattered -Poetry by Januário Esteves
I run away from myself, and I can't reach The other part of myself Surrendered, confused, restless I don't grab the crazy extreme On the...
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