THE EIDOLON

A little kid lay in bed, playing with the fringes of their blanket. First they looped the fabric around one finger, then pulled the end...

I’d split an orange with you. Everyone knows segmented fruits were made for two. How nice to eat as we wend Down scenic paths across the...

Calla’s grandmother always brought flowers when she came to visit. When Calla was little and time flew from one adventure to the next,...

Mr. and Ms. Richards did not have high expectations for their 30th anniversary. For one thing, there was that new global pandemic thing...

She lounges on the chaise Legs dangling while my heart she is mangling Not of ill intent but of ignorance. A grape as purple as a bruise...

I have a playlist on my Spotify. It’s filled with songs from the folksy banjos of the Secret Sisters to the dreamy, airlike voice of...

MOSCOW — After weeks of anti-Putin protests, Alexei Navalny’s list of accomplishments has just grown one longer. As Putin’s most feared...

Round and Round Panting. Their breaths mingling in the air Laughing. Heads tilted toward the sky Shouting and hollering At the top of...

I went on down to the madwoman’s home ‘Cause I heard she had powerful brews I knocked hard on her hobbit-hole door And counted what I...

Flowers Mark the Grave The path is Narrow Overgrown Forgotten I trace the path that I’ve made in the grass From visits often and overdone...

The cave was dark and humid, smelling awful and suffocating me. The statues remained still, in the same places, moss continuing to track...

Wicked Witch They say when she died, the earth went dry. The brooks no longer babbled The streams no longer sung The rivers’ roar was...

The Petaled Path Pink blossoms scatter as the wind tosses them at my feet. More blossoms, orange blossoms, gold blossoms, many-colored...

on a road on a ride on a carousel there lies a brown wooden rabbit which incidentally was the seat of a black man whose body was not...

I’ve changed. I’ve grown taller, but my eyes seem to have shrunk. I’ve put more muscle on my arms, but my brain seems to be rusty. I’ve...

November 4, 2020 Little white daisy White petals, reflecting sun A small piece of light A small twinge of sad To grow quickly like a...

The bus stop had seen plenty of visitors pass it by over its lifetime. Its iron-runged seats were rusted, russet brown bubbles cresting...

1. Fright /frit/ noun A sudden intense feeling of fear. verb Frighten. -Oxford Languages 2. Fall was in the air. Walking around the...

as i sit there, digging i can't help but think that all of this is futile. scooping out soil from the embalmed earth, planting rotten...

She checked her phone. 14:52, October 22, 2065. She was late. She tapped her foot against the grimy pavement, waiting for the light to...