Author / Marissa Gomez
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Crescent Roll of the Moon – Alena Podobed
The sky is frothy white with clouds like with flakes of sweet cream. The lollipop ingot of the sun has teased us and gone. Now, the darkness of the night glows with myriads of crumbs: someone has secretly feasted on a sponge cake up there. The poppy seed crescent roll of the moon is fatter…
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an unkindness of ravens – Abbie Hart
once i read this adage that bad people don’t think they’re bad people which made me think i wasn’t bad which made me think i was which put me in an anxiety spiral at god knows o clock a.m sometimes i think maybe i’ve burned bridges just to have something to run from like i…
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There’s A Baby In Heaven For Me – Levi Mericle
There is a dream I can’t imagine And a son I cannot hold There’s a passion I seek and a kissless cheek And a love as pure as gold There’s a child I need and a father’s greed An ocean of tears I’ve cried There’s a heaven that cradles my baby And a question not…
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Runaway – Erin Brody
Gentle hum of cars on my right Rumbling of the trains on my left Locusts buzzing in front of me My family shouting behind me The wind caresses my face with her brisk hand —Like the way Mom used to— Her other hand brushes my hair towards the dusk sky Fireflies make light in out…
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The Old Man – Pragjyotish Bhuyan Gogoi
The trembling old man, Spirit waning with time, Everyday I see him Head down with thoughts, Walking slowly by. But today was he smiling And was gathering quite a pace, Out of curiosity, I could not help but follow his steps. Into the woods he went And so did I. From behind a tree I…
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The Number You Have Dialed Is No Longer In Service – Michelle Brooks
Since you’ve been gone, it feels like a Monday after a long holiday, all stale coffee and jammed printers. The mail is junk and bills, and it’s always leftovers for dinner. I don’t feel lonely. I don’t feel much of anything except that the carnival has left town for good, like it never happened. Your…
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Lessons In Gardening When Ya Skin Is Brown And The World Is Too Tough – Sarahjeen François
Sarahjeen François [July 10, 1987] is a Haitian-American theatre artist based out of the Greater Los Angeles Area. Born and raised in Miami, FL, Sarahjeen found her love for the performing arts in music – She began playing piano and violin in the 5th grade and moved on to learn French Horn, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon,…
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Falling Missiles – Sarah Prindle
1991, Petah-Tikva, Israel To the person shooting missiles at my country, You don’t know me, but my name is Naomi Abraham. I don’t know who you are, how old you are, what you look like, or what your favorite color is. I don’t know why you want to kill me. But just so you know,…
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Surreal Cartoons – David Warner
David Warner uses surrealism and other “heady” elements to express his humor.
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Centaur Scolding – Sam Skoronski
Sam Skoronski, graduated from Kutztown University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Skoronski has been drawing cartoons for years and hopes to be published one day.
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Great Obstacles – Akshay Sundaram
Akshay Sundaram is a Junior in college and spent all of his childhood drawing and writing comics. Through years of creating, Sundaram believes he’s honed a voice and style that is distinctly his own.
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Elephant in the Room – Sam Skoronski
Sam Skoronski has been drawing cartoons for years and won second place in the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest.
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Bellevue Botanical Garden – Cindy Phan
Cindy Phan is an ice skater and an inline skater, an outdoor adventurer, and a huge extreme sports enthusiast. Making ends meet as a clinical receptionist while getting an education in health care management. She currently resides in the Pacific Northwest but plans on moving to a more tropical place to fulfill her habits. Phan…
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Wingbeat to Wingbeat – Ivy Robb
Ivy Aloa Robb is an emerging poet and artist living in northern Minnesota. They have been creating and selling art since they were fifteen years old. Robb attended local art shows as well as maintained a strong online art presence over the years. They work in watercolor, ink, acrylic, oil, and graphite, but prefer mixed…
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Water Lillies – Van Lanigh
Inspired by great masters as Vrubel and Monet, Van Lanigh creates figurative and landscape pieces. Her unique style is a reaction to abstractionism in an attempt to capture surrealistic yet casual reality. This is especially underlined by new forms and materials used in Van Lanigh’s artworks aimed to achieve the viewer’s resonance between visual effect…
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Skyscape – Barbara Boxleitner
Dr. Barbara Boxleitner is a former university teacher and current print journalist, who captures through photography the grandeur of life with her beloved daughter.
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Abandoned – Sandeep Shete
Sandeep Shete (“SandyVisual”) is a self-taught visual artist who creates digital artworks and single-panel gag cartoons in his free time. His work has appeared in American, German, and Indian publications such as The Fabulist, The Esthetic Apostle, 45th Parallel, Chaleur Magazine, Rumble Fish Quarterly, Camas, Beyond Words, Stoneboat, The Showbear Family Circus, Reading Hour, and…
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Little Blue – Wolf Freeborn
Wolf Freeborn is a person better known than explained, he strives to live outside the boundaries of expectations and social structure, and through this, he found photography. This medium is a way for him to explore the world and give others a taste of what life is like outside the boundaries others set for us.
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Your Favorite Destination
When we see all the beautiful pictures of different places around the world, it’s hard not to want to leap into that exact moment the picture shows (trust me it doesn’t work). I’ve started to collect a collage of pictures from travel magazines of all the incredible places I want to visit one day. My…
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Finding Bright – Jaina Cipriano
Jaina Cipriano is creating visual metaphors for emotions she has trouble defining. Without the help of Photoshop, she builds physical environments that open her subjects up to become part of something bigger. This primes the space for an authenticity that is so visceral it brings the viewer back to their own memories. Jaina’s work takes…
