by Ivory Web | Jun 11, 2009 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
With women's rights an issue in Afghanistan and an election taking place in Iran, here's a topical haiga by regular IS&T contributor Alexis Rotella…
by Ivory Web | Jun 10, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Her sister's wedding.The sex was clumsy, fumbled, awkward and prolonged, or at least itmight have been if they were not suddenly interrupted by the powerbeing restored and the fluorescent light above them flickeringstutteringly back and flooding the room. He had...
by Ivory Web | Jun 9, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Capacity Smoothing off-white, recycled, 50 pound text I linger as familiar passages pull me back into a story I’ve never really left and my eyes trace the hook of a serif...
by Ivory Web | Jun 8, 2009 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
GuestSlouched on their couch I try for invisibility, my belly falling over my crotch and affording some privacy, my fur a little sparse here and there, my skin scaling underneath. “Gorilla” means a “tribe of hairy women” but I’m just one gorilla in a group of...
by Ivory Web | Jun 6, 2009 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* Charles Christian is the publisher of Ink Sweat & Tears and just occasionally he publishes his own work but tries not to make a habit of it.