The Stardust ReviewFeb 11A Memory of Sea Dian Hathaway I arrive at the beach just as the sun is beginning to set. The powerful, titian red, relentless sun. The sun which I had been away from too lon...
The Stardust ReviewFeb 11Can't SleepBill Garten I go for a walk in my neighborhood at 2am with the flashlight of insomnia seeing other house lights on - computer and television screens through ...
The Stardust ReviewFeb 11CRAZY BITCHRoger S. Gottlieb “It’s hopeless, isn’t’ it.” Daniel’s face was serious, but also a little childlike, as if he was hoping she could make it all better. “Prob...
The Stardust ReviewFeb 11Baby Doll By Kristina Rivera Colón The little girl peeked around the curtain and looked at the audience. The adults sat in black velvet chairs, a harsh contrast agains...
The Stardust ReviewDec 26, 2019HeartsBy Andrea Johnston Matthew’s apartment is underground. The few windows look out into narrow wells sheathed with corrugated steel. If you look up at a sharp e...
The Stardust ReviewDec 26, 2019Family Spiritby Sterling Warner Grandma’s funeral had contained its share of theatrics. Each child approached the open casket individually and contributed to the visual s...
The Stardust ReviewDec 8, 2019Canto IIIThe Gates of Hell By John Danenbarger Today, Jessie Cristo had been in such good humor. Before he lost control, he had been driving in his own world and sing...
The Stardust ReviewDec 8, 2019Ode to the PulpitBy Zachery Rahn We go down in Georgia forests deer can’t live in, on all four wheelers we ride until dusk, blow cattails like dandelions. He tells me Don’t s...
The Stardust ReviewDec 8, 2019AtlantoaxialBy Mavis Blake You drive to the clinic alone that day. As usual. You are not required to have a driver if you opt for no sedation for the procedure. During ...
The Stardust ReviewDec 8, 2019Watching the Moon Explode (Together)By R. S. Williams I don’t know anything about Cuba. But I did go to the trouble of asking you what to write about. I know that you love it, not because you a...
The Stardust ReviewDec 4, 2019JanuaryBy Corbin Wamble It's often said that math is the language that binds the universe, prose the tongue of the common man, poetry merely flashy language to make...
The Stardust ReviewDec 4, 2019First LovesBy Melinda Canny I remember my first love. The way his cologne smelled, how his strawberry-blond hair glittered in the sunlight, when it was just slightly da...
The Stardust ReviewDec 4, 2019Stardust: The Second StoryBy David McAllister he said all it takes is a sprinkle for you to leave this world behind a sprinkle of stardust to explore the stars oh & you have to beli...
The Stardust ReviewDec 4, 2019What Is and What Should Never Be, Letters To New York CityBy Sara Jhong The year is 1950—my grandfather is thirteen and if he does not make the train in the next seven and a half minutes, he will die. Seven and a ha...
The Stardust ReviewDec 3, 2019LoveStoryBy David McAllister outer space seems always empty when you are an asteroid built with a soul of ice / I drift through blindness never attaching myself to ...
The Stardust ReviewDec 3, 2019Nostalgia ChildBy Carlana Perla What is it about the past that keeps coming to you in the loneliness of dawn? Or in the glimpse of sunlight escaping from a cloud? The embra...
The Stardust ReviewDec 3, 2019On Becoming StrangersBy Alexandra Smereka Prisoner of your murmur, honey, my swollen tongue tingles as I take deep breaths into the sea foam and again once more, float into...
The Stardust ReviewDec 3, 2019Frangible By Alexandra Smereka While waiting for you, I put my hands in my pockets, heavy with change as if I’m not already different. Sorrow-thinned lips like a line ...
The Stardust ReviewDec 3, 2019Daylight Savings TimeBy Alexandra Smereka When words fall like leaves from your lips I know the air is about to grow colder, the shadows longer, our days together shorter. When y...
The Stardust ReviewDec 3, 2019Before the floodBy Alexandra Smereka If I am made of so much water, why don’t I evaporate under your heated gaze? Drip away until all that is left of me longs to flow into t...
