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Tag: 2021

“Carol Anne” by Kelly Curran

There are dogs next door, in the house to the right of Carol Anne’s. And not just one or two. She’s tried counting them based on the different barks, but she always loses track. When a siren whines down the road, they all start howling, almost screaming. It’s as if they’re mourning something, perhaps their… Read More “Carol Anne” by Kelly Curran

February 27, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Will it Hurt?” by Lindsey Anthony-Bacchione

The seasons had passed seamlessly in Los Angeles with a gentleman’s handshake of ten degrees difference between them. Spring had warmed to summer, had warmed to fall, and now we were here having surpassed the crest of the heat in Southern California. The climate fires had all been put out, but the air was still… Read More “Will it Hurt?” by Lindsey Anthony-Bacchione

February 27, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Verses Almost Sent to a Lingering Flame” by Adrian Cepeda

When I close the screen, I feel the light softly go out in the room where your pixelated cheeks just blushed for me. I wonder if, all the way on the other side of your universe, when closing your laptop, do you feel the sounds of our instant disconnection? Feeling   screenshot in isolation, with… Read More “Verses Almost Sent to a Lingering Flame” by Adrian Cepeda

February 26, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Flight Cage” by Maya Nordine

How overjoyed I was, to hear  her squawking stop so suddenly. She’d boarded after me, birdcage in hand.  Then, after the ascent, three  squawks. Maybe two.  Anyone on a plane, I’ll tell you,  can’t stand the sound.  I’d heard of puppies  dying overhead, the change  of pressure too much  for their little lungs, but birds?… Read More “Flight Cage” by Maya Nordine

February 26, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Piano Forte” by Lisa Croce

Who’s to say what makes a moment. Is it to be found in the glow or graying plumes reaching out to caress absence or air?[…]… Read More “Piano Forte” by Lisa Croce

February 25, 2021March 1, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Portrait of the Mundane” by Jake Bailey

The first time I met God, I was draped in a rough, elephant-colored bathrobe, worn soles on my slippers.[…]… Read More “Portrait of the Mundane” by Jake Bailey

February 25, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Portrait of a Blackhole” by Jake Bailey

Bears don’t know the difference
between a fish that’s mostly dead
and a fish that jumps into a ready mouth. The waters part for a man of God. The waters part for a man with no God.[…]… Read More “Portrait of a Blackhole” by Jake Bailey

February 25, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Severance” by Jake Bailey

The words are mostly water and float easily between logs and silt, weaving their way into something understandable. I never agreed
to the terms of the contract, my heart a balloon loosed from fingers reddened to white.[…]… Read More “Severance” by Jake Bailey

February 25, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Yang” by Helen Doremus

golden Chinese lion dog head

It is awake in the chill morning air, dripping cold rainwater off of its snout to the cement below. It sees the stretch of parked cars, the fence ringing The Building which breaks only to force visitors past its stony paws, the sway of trees in the distance — all of this is discernible within… Read More “Yang” by Helen Doremus

February 25, 2021February 28, 2021 sentiencejournal

“Death Ruins It” by Caley O’Dwyer

line art of two people facing one another in elaborate robes and plain robes respectively

I face myself, the thing convincing  as a face can be, although it breaks where it should mend in laughter.  Do you believe in me though you  should believe in nothing,  where it hurts a little, that time of life that stuns  into you, so you see the future, where you stand guard, eager to… Read More “Death Ruins It” by Caley O’Dwyer

February 25, 2021March 4, 2021 sentiencejournal

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Literary Uprising Reading | Tuesday, May 17th | 5:00pm to 6:00pm PDT  FREE It's time to make some Connections. Coming soon! Don't miss tonight's Literary Uprising, featuring our Editor at Large, @ninalouisewrites! We're still looking for your connected, attached, and improbably joined works of #fiction, #poetry, #cnf , and #art through the end of October!  Now open to all writers and artists! #litmag #sentiencelit We're coming back for more! In "Night Polo," @caleyodwyer_art furthers his study of the ephemeralities of life reflected in an ever-wheeling night sky. The close darkness and chaos of a ship tossed on a stormy sea enfolds the sensual details of the conflicted narrator's voice in @redvelvetlungs' "Revelation of the Damned." Asymmetrical repetitions and fractal images of bounded oceans and skies make "Portrait of a Blackhole" a complex imagining of concrete oblivions, from the pen of @saintjakeowitz.
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