February 24, 2019
“trainers” is british english for “sneakers”
I took some of my dad’s trainers
The last time I saw him.
He is not yet dead
He can still walk
But he cannot run
He can only really shuffle.
He doesn’t need trainers
And though I sometimes say
I don’t need him
I do enjoy
Thinkin...
November 14, 2018
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Writers rarely get the opportunity to ‘toot their own horn’ so to speak. I always like to start off these interviews with a little intro and feel free to really go for it! Tell our readers a little bit about yourself, what you do and...
October 25, 2018
i used to be baffled by Twitter
why would i want to follow the lives of famous people?
more than likely it was my desire to belong
which lead me to sign up
and after that
Twitter
Facebook
Blogger
Tumblr
Wordpress
Linkedin
Instagram
before all of that
a computer was in...
September 20, 2018
Dry Run
old days have folded — I’m
calling to nothing.
they were rushed, now the drumroll
is peaking.
everything i once loved stands in a row of statues
— in that slumber i sense their
holding, but upon a
leaning their support’s as strong as dust.
fear and courage ellip...
June 30, 2018
Chello Sherman is an emerging artist and writer with an MFA in Studio Art from Moore College of Art and Design. Her work has recently appeared in GNU, Fish Food, The Warren, Sliver of Stone and most recently in Artists in Recovery.
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May 14, 2018
Another country,
another person
awake in a motel
listening to cars passing.
I am listening too.
Beyond, the night clerk
stares at a glowing
blue box, thinking
of all his decisions, hoping
half awake, for morning.
A lizard darts across
the dry stones
then turns to look
rig...
December 4, 2017
Mathilda, the woman in the cherry blossom pink dress fidgeted uncomfortably as the new passenger sat down next to her. It was a boy with indecently long hair and baggy black clothes. Mathilda didn’t want to look twice but she was almost sure he had black nail polish an...
November 12, 2017
‘The first breakup conversation with his wife needed subtitles. Everyone has had these conversations; even a monk might have one with another monk, scrubbing potatoes or polishing Jesus’ wooden bones’
- 32%, ‘Some Weird Sin’ in ‘Planet Grim’
By Alex Behr
7.13 Books, Oct...
November 6, 2017
October 20, 2017
"It sounds too simple. Cliché. But I believe there’s an upper limit to sadness. I don’t think that exists for happiness. Loving someone with all your heart sounds worth it. It’s the best risk you could possibly make."
- Hotel Hart, p.43
Meredith Miller
To be published Dec...