...and that's a wrap for Vol. 2! Here's the complete list, so you can more easily revisit individual pieces: Legend, by Courtney LeBlanc A Japanese legend says if you can’t sleep it’s because you’re awake in someone else’s dream. Featured Writer: Courtney LeBlanc A Love Song In Four Bars, by Jessie Lynn McMains It’s just you’re so pretty when yr putty, yr so damaged like a fist to a mirror. Sir Math, by Kelly Sexton And I almost fucked you, after the dirty talk about the fact

The Cave by Ele-Beth Little A quiet baby grew into a quiet girl; Swaddled feelings mute to brim, they held her tight, Positioned to reflect a sham parental world She occupied the plastic cave behind her eyes. When night un-hushed her, tears soon found their form For all that light erased through vacant days, She grieved the space within that danced a storm Compelled to sit and smile, Accommodate Sit and smile And wait Sit And smile And wait For the bullshit cycle to replay I

Below is a complete list of each piece published for the Bone & Ink Press blog-zine inaugural themes. Stay tuned for the February/March themes, which will start being published in a few days. (And consider submitting your own stuff, maybe?) Stillness, by Ele-Beth Little Being still is only something for glasses of white wine and ice at night. For tired eyes. For sleeping on the couch, glasses lopsided. Hurricanes happen and heat. The gardening and the dog-walking, driving. I

Stillness by Ele-Beth Little The book. First it was Jane Eyre. Being still is only something for glasses of white wine and ice at night. For tired eyes. For sleeping on the couch, glasses lopsided. Hurricanes happen and heat. The gardening and the dog-walking, driving. I inherited her movement, to a lesser degree. The funeral director said it sounds like she enjoyed setting things up. Her friends said she always runs away. Planted seeds. Refurbished pubs. Hitch-hiked home fro