Archive for Fantasy

1. DREAMWEAVERS • by Lindsey Duncan 9 Comments

   Dreamcatchers hear the tales of fate and chance,
   Of glimmers found by sleeping mind;
   Dreamweavers spin the thread of this night’s dance.
    
   From fancy’s flight comes matter of a stronger kind:
   Nightmares woven into subtle twine
   Of glimmers found by sleeping mind.
    
   Then thread by thread and line by line,
   A tapestry unveils to wondering eyes –
   Nightmares woven into subtle twine.
    
   Beneath the [...]

   Fantasy, Terzanelle
   
   

2. UNTITLED • by Aurelio Rico Lopez III 5 Comments

   boxers trade punches
   high roller cheers ringside
   money on the four-armed guy
   Aurelio Rico Lopez III hails from Iloilo City, Philippines. You can reach him at thirdylopez2001@yahoo.com

   Fantasy
   
   

3. UNTITLED • by Greg Schwartz 3 Comments

   time machine–
   munching popcorn while I watch
   Custer’s last stand

   Greg Schwartz is a copier repairman, horror writer, and haiku poet. Some of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Niteblade, Modern Haiku, Talebones, and the 2008 Red Moon Anthology. He is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine.

   Fantasy, Other, Surreal
   
   

4. THE ONLOOKER • by Jessica Thomas 5 Comments

   Staring out the wounded spacecraft,
   the onlooker floats through the apparent void of space,
   between the stars–light years apart.
   The white face,
   framed by a circular window.
   He presses his hand against it
   and shadows form
   at the tips
   of his fingers.
   His eyes are gray and space enters them,
   darkness pouring
   as infinitely as the universe.
   Forlorn.
   Chalk-white.
   Floating with no engine or fuel left.
   None of the courage [...]

   Fantasy, Horror
   
   

5. SPRING, FINALLY • by Lyndon Perry 29 Comments

    
   The funeral drizzle of the previous months
   gives way reluctantly, yet inevitably,
   to the lighter, airy elements of the year—
   which toil like unseen stage hands changing scenes
   for self-absorbed actors who wait impatiently for their cue,
   ready to take their turn upon a freshly-prepped set.
    
   In the vale, the first to light the stage,
   as she does every Spring, is the [...]

   Fantasy
   
   

6. POST-SALVAGE STRESS SYNDROME • by S.J. Higbee 9 Comments

   You glide through the airless airlock
   with your breath rasping in your ears,
   As the beam from your headlamp waits
   to fade in the massed darkness…
   You rasp through the useless airlock
   with your breath sounding in your ears,
   Your headlamp beam fades under
   the mass of waiting darkness
   when you weave through the drifting
   debris of a dead crew…
   Every breath you take through [...]

   Fantasy, Narrative, Other, Poems
   
   

7. DEATH OF A LION KING • by Jess C Scott 5 Comments

   A hot, humid wind blows across the Savannah.
   A million thorns pierce each gaping wound.
   The king, once mighty, full of strength and vitality,
   now staggers away, wounded and defeated.
   The young prince does not hesitate.
   He proceeds to maul the pride of cubs.
   Wails of the queen reach the gaunt and powerless king,
   who cries a roar of woe that echoes far [...]

   Fantasy, Nature, Other, Poems
   
   

8. LIBERATED • by Barbara McGinley 5 Comments

   And this is where they… shall we say – lived?
   Can you see? See how the light – as meek
   as the tormented – shies away from the floor?
   What brutes our forefathers, ma’am, you say?
   Perhaps. Those who emerged wore the carapace one way
   or another forever more: it bowed their backs, fouled
   their eyes, they were cowed, gazed
   ever inwards.
   How did they come [...]

   Fantasy, Other, Poems