Archive for Narrative

1. 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
   
   

2. AN AUDIENCE OF ONE • by Casey Quinn 16 Comments

   an audience
   of one
   but millions
   in the mind
   cheer on
   an aged
   dreamer
   the almost
   rocker
   hits a final
   out
   of tune
   note
   soap based
   microphone
   placed
   back
   on the stand
   curtains
   open
   and he
   exits
   his stage.
   Casey Quinn writes prose and poetry. He is also the editor of the online magazine Short Story Library.

   Free Form, Humour/Satire, Narrative, Poems
   
   

3. JAB A HOOK IN • by K.C. Ball 14 Comments

   (My heart-felt apologies to Deacon Dodgson)
   T’was brilliant as chrome-metal mesh;
   Did gleam and glitter ‘neath the blade.
   All mirrored was the bluegill flesh,
   And in a wink fillet’d.
   Beware the barb’d hook, my friend!
   That flies about and nips the skin!
   Beware that fearsome, awful fiend;
   The earnest fisherman.
   He took his tackle box in hand;
   Long time the wily fish he sought.
   So rested [...]

   Humour/Satire, Narrative, Poems