Ultramarine Lit Review

by Marianne Tefft Headland You need me to be the headland Around whose firmly planted feet Your flood waters rise relentless Without...

by Kathryn Paulsen She thought his new movie was kind of a mess, and felt bad for him. After his early success, expectations were high...

by Mark Blaeuer Explorer With a smooth flat rock on her lap, she gripped a second rock— jagged and dirty— anathema by strict parental...

by Catherine Kay Mounting the headland exertion whips me Sharp March wind pushing my progress back Midpoint, my lungs give out dizzy with...

by Paris Rosemont "…hemorrhaging poems, each phrase peeled from the flesh in bandages"                  ~Derek Walcott (The Walk)...

by Michael New When Caleb pushed open the warped door of the shack in Hospital Heights in New Castle, the metallic scent of fresh blood...

by Lillian Nećakov In some long-forgotten midnight, Vasko Popa sits, wilted, on a wooden chair, in his tiny room in Skadarlija. The world...

by Lynn White Always carried, on the inside, on the outside, in the centre on the edges. Always on the edge, on edge, edgy haunted...

by Joseph Ogbonna I had a romantic winter with Hannah. The warmth of her presence felt really cozy. Like an ice vacuum sheltering sunny...

by Kiyoshi Hirawa It was midnight and moonlight when the Mare trampled her foal, staining the sunflowers. Stampeding bison hid...

by Kiyoshi Hirawa Except, she won’t. True, she’ll be seen from the pews in the pulpit above, but the arresting gold of her vestment...

by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal Split the word in two, and the word will grow. Split the word in half and break its meaning. Each word can...

by Gary Beck I left the meeting completely disgusted. The committee refused to reject the incumbent congressman, despite the many...

by Todd Matson The more he drank the more he wanted to drink as one led to two and two led to three in the morning. The more he smoked...

by Nolo Segundo When the world was quiet And life moved with grace, Time measured by seasons And years instead of minutes, And people saw...

by Frank William Finney A Mist Off Pirates’ Cove Pigeons peck pizza from paper plates the way the beachbums used to do on their way to...

by Arthur Heifetz (a street performance in Leon, Nicaragua) it hurts to lift my enormous head planted as it is on my diminutive frame and...

by Dee Allen Sirensong Wind in the sails, clipper ship in motion Left Jamaica after a transport run, enraged ocean. The Saint Paul...

by Eric Lande I left the house in a hurry. I wanted to shop quickly and return to my computer. I told my partner José that if he needed...

A short story about marriage by Renz Chester R. Gumaru.