KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ is originally from northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area, or what’s lovingly called “The Region.” Kristine is...

Mathematical Anguish At the end here’s subtractive serendipity, the morning stars dissolve like fading perfume splashes in your yawn,...

Quietus Airborne leaves, twigs and branches buffeted my car. Rain and hailstones lashed my screen splashed curses, You’ll fail, you’ll...

In The Trenches tripping over wires laid on the ground for us to trap our feet among small potholes filled with ugly little creatures...

Songs For An Autistic Boy November 2014 You burned your infant sister’s face with boiling water. Did you ever like the color red and its...

A Question of Size All my life I’ve been running into people who declare, “Magic makes the world a bigger place” as if conjuring greasy...

Torn Up Tonsilmouth we’re both so unhappy we’re all so strange the flashing light of passing cars is, tonight, a lure and,...

When We First Met she was a brilliant light that could effortlessly defeat all-consuming darkness I cocooned myself in, did not know ...

Pirouette His hands moved me like strings attached to a marionette deftly, as I danced for him my body lifted to each movement of...

go outside and play turned into locked doors and space away from yelling at one another. mama looks out the front window. nods as she...