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Bill Garten I go for a walk in my neighborhood at 2am with the flashlight of insomnia seeing other house lights on - computer and...
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The Stardust Review
- Feb 11, 2020
CRAZY BITCH
Roger 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...
The Stardust Review
- Feb 11, 2020
Baby 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...
Andrea Johnston
- Dec 26, 2019
Hearts
By Andrea Johnston Matthew’s apartment is underground. The few windows look out into narrow wells sheathed with corrugated steel. If you...
The Stardust Review
- Dec 26, 2019
Family Spirit
by Sterling Warner Grandma’s funeral had contained its share of theatrics. Each child approached the open casket individually and...
The Stardust Review
- Dec 8, 2019
Canto III
The Gates of Hell By John Danenbarger Today, Jessie Cristo had been in such good humor. Before he lost control, he had been driving in...
Zachery Rahn
- Dec 8, 2019
Ode to the Pulpit
By 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....
Mavis Blake
- Dec 8, 2019
Atlantoaxial
By 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...
R. S. Williams
- Dec 8, 2019
Watching 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...
Corbin Wamble
- Dec 4, 2019
January
By Corbin Wamble It's often said that math is the language that binds the universe, prose the tongue of the common man, poetry merely...
Melinda Canny
- Dec 4, 2019
First Loves
By Melinda Canny I remember my first love. The way his cologne smelled, how his strawberry-blond hair glittered in the sunlight, when it...
David McAllister
- Dec 4, 2019
Stardust: The Second Story
By 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...
Sara Jhong
- Dec 4, 2019
What Is and What Should Never Be, Letters To New York City
By 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...
David McAllister
- Dec 3, 2019
LoveStory
By David McAllister outer space seems always empty when you are an asteroid built with a soul of ice / I drift through blindness never...
Carlana Perla
- Dec 3, 2019
Nostalgia Child
By 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...
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
On Becoming Strangers
By Alexandra Smereka Prisoner of your murmur, honey, my swollen tongue tingles as I take deep breaths into the sea foam and again once...
The Stardust Review
- Dec 3, 2019
Frangible
By Alexandra Smereka While waiting for you, I put my hands in my pockets, heavy with change as if I’m not already different....
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
Daylight Savings Time
By Alexandra Smereka When words fall like leaves from your lips I know the air is about to grow colder, the shadows longer, our days...
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
Before the flood
By 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...
Alexandra Smereka
- Dec 3, 2019
This Savage Stardust
By Alexandra Smereka We’ve done this all before, haven’t we? Spun around the swirling stars in our eyes, the galaxy in your chest,...