TO CHRISTOPH MULLER, by Ileana D Vasquez
In the wind drift sweet memories
Tender fragments of you
To the honey-colored moon
They travel
A Radiant, bewitched moon.
Arduously seeping out of our radiant heart
A longing heart.
Yet inside
We, enveloped by a glorious light
Our souls unite
In one passionate embrace
Until infinity.
MAD CAT, by D. C. MacLean
After Nemo the psycho cat disappeared
There was no one left to murder the birds
Neither the weeds nor the moss
Sci Fi worlds becoming real in our backyard
Remembering the small monster on the roof of the shed
Her howling angry and sublime, circling the earth
But Nemo decided death and madness could wait
And padded down from from the moss
Again choosing the glory of owning a family
You could terrorize with small claws
Feral forgivenesses written in the scratches
Steady blood flowing in underground rivers
Incontinent and cancerous she sat like stone
In front of my wife’s car, daring her to drive
Our Ford no match for Nemo’s mad cat eyes
This tiny lion becoming a ghost the next red day
Her soft feet disappearing into time
Dark, death, painful, philosophical, sad, and redemption. It’s a real barrel of laughs
Performed by Val Cole
Performed by Val Cole
Galavanting around an online dating world in which people ghost, lie, and cheat, Mariani Coito recounts her experiences with men in South Florida. Each chapter demonstrates a glimpse into the common complications of modern day dating.
While she swipes through the men around her, hoping to find love with a man of her dreams, she discovers how to love herself.
Performed by Val Cole
Name: Roderick E. Stevens
Title: Elephant In a Safeway Bag
Genre: Crime thriller / Dramedy
Synopsis:
“Elephant in a Safeway Bag” follows the adventures of River, a feisty young man with Down syndrome determined to get to the Grand Canyon in spite of his scatterbrained brother, a tenacious lawman, an escaped convict, a runaway bride and Elvis Presley.
About the Author
Manuel Lasso, a Peruvian novelist, short story writer and playwright, studied Literature at the City College of New York, where he became a winner of the Floral Games in the narrative category. His work has been published in magazines and newspapers from Europe and America and has readers in five continents. Visit his blog
http://manuellasso.blogspot.com
or follow him on Twitter @Manuel_Lasso.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16000068-london-s-falling
This is London if everything went awry and plunged into chaos as opposing, colliding forces explode to release a sleeping darkness.
‘Michael is made an irresistible offer by an expansive man named Constantine Czerback. A gangster from Bulgaria, Con is seeking legitimacy and influence in his new, safer base in London. He seeks respect and finds a tool for this through his cultivation of the flamboyant and haughty Mayor of London.
Michael is well pleased at first but soon finds himself in a raging sea of illegality, of fake passports, illegal immigrants and much, much more… all the while he rationalizes these actions and events as somehow humanitarian.’
How would society, and human interactions, be different if we were each allowed one free killing of another? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator works as one of two designers at an athletic shoe factory. Ally, the other designer and a missed love interest, takes him to lunch to inform him their departments are being merged and she will be the head of the department. In effect, she will be his boss. After they leave the restaurant, the narrator decides to finally use his “one free kill” and shoots and kills Ally, not for love, he says, but for work.
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