Existence of Icarus as a Binary Code. My friend dies under a hawk’s breath. & Alzheimer’s as remedy to undo Loss, by Chinedu Gospel

I. TELL ME “how did we decode his               body? meta —made of dust?or silver —made from               rust? Hey, Icarus,  how do understand your               biology after your brain was coded with binaries? you,                who dared gravity & space- walked your way into the               mouth of the sun in an attempt to be luminous.               you who coughed the moon  out of your lungs where it …

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Jar, by Erin Brown

APRIL 2023, SHORT STORY, 2000 WORDS 1 They say the Jar standing high on the hill above the city, silhouetted against the sky, alone and imposing, is the eternal stomach of the River God of the Valley, who is praised to devour us one by one. But one doesn’t have to be in the Jar …

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Tower of Owls, by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan

      The owls in the vault of your mouth confess their grieving silence to the chapel of the dead     when a tarantula uplifts a ruined man& washes him clean of every ectopic morpheme                    refusing to ripen into a wet               independent clause outside the night’s                   womb.               Rudely tucked into                    your voice box, the owls brawl      for harmonious hoots with the choir of the living. The loneliness     of …

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