Archive for Fantasy
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DREAMWEAVERS • by Lindsey Duncan
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Dreamcatchers hear the tales of fate and chance,
Fantasy, Terzanelle
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 [...]
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UNTITLED • by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
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boxers trade punches
Fantasy
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
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UNTITLED • by Greg Schwartz
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time machine–
munching popcorn while I watch
Custer’s last standGreg 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
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THE ONLOOKER • by Jessica Thomas
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Staring out the wounded spacecraft,
Fantasy, Horror
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 [...]
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SPRING, FINALLY • by Lyndon Perry
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Fantasy
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 [...]
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POST-SALVAGE STRESS SYNDROME • by S.J. Higbee
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You glide through the airless airlock
Fantasy, Narrative, Other, Poems
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 [...]
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DEATH OF A LION KING • by Jess C Scott
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A hot, humid wind blows across the Savannah.
Fantasy, Nature, Other, Poems
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 [...]
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LIBERATED • by Barbara McGinley
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And this is where they… shall we say – lived?
Fantasy, Other, Poems
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 [...]

