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Flat

A Story by Jeni Reed

I slept on a flat floor with no walls like those around me. This is how the complex was set up. No one paid attention to anyone else, you knew this be..

As Paper Chains

A Poem by Jeni Reed

FORM from the thirteenth giftwith pulp furnish fadeleaks its synthetic organsdown the saddened pagepropensity to destroy the thingsafter their birth i..

Body cell

A Poem by Jeni Reed

Living in a wooden cellS'not bad when you don't smellIs only when life whispers woeTis your coffin, nots a glowThat remembers box is no trapIs corpse ..

Moon Bits

A Story by Jeni Reed

The moon splits and spills its hot milky tears. The night becomes heavier. Genders reverse from confusion, seeking answers in the hearses from where t..

Yellow Paint

A Poem by Jeni Reed

Peel the walls strip the yellow skin Lead is laden from the sickness within Embody the sick and eat the poor Striping the exterior to get some mo..

Cliff Tears

A Poem by Jeni Reed

I have no energy for the daysThe eye cliff totters with waterfall tearsAfter the fall I split into three andthen a few moreOne stands beyond the cliff..

Salt Haunts

A Story by Jeni Reed

Contemporary witch. Either for humors sake, or because it was the only thing convenient, she used kitchen sea salt to barricade certain objects that w..

Matter

A Story by Jeni Reed

Staring at my balcony wall I tried to put my finger on what was so familiar about it. Two poles ran parallel to the fat block running across the lengt..

Four Bodies

A Story by Jeni Reed

We used to have three dogs. The first dog ate a strange looking mushroom in our yard; he died later that day. The second dog was a bit older, but more..

To Elude an Illusion

A Poem by Jeni Reed

The skies are green, the clouds a deep black A rope too long, and yet no slack Tea grown cold, transformed into ice Honey that drips in, rolls into di..