Rob Plath's found a hole in the universe

the hole in the universetoday i read in the newspaperthat scientists have discovered 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness out in space & how they are puzzledby the whole thingwhile i sit with a cigarette in handlooking up at the dark skysending my meek smoke...

New concrete poetry by Chris Major

You need to be following current affairs in the UK at the moment to appreciate this visual pun. In particular, the resignation from Parliament of Tory MP David Davies, who is now casting himself as an unlikely successor John Hampden (look him up on Wikipedia) as a...

New short fiction by Janet Yung

Dining Out“Do you want me to call an ambulance?”  The chubby manager of the all you can eat restaurant is seated on the floor next to Peter, the elderly patron, who’s barely had time to settle at the table waiting with his wife, Clara, while their two nieces have...

Three short poems by Colin Cross

SOBER OR MISSED the first two peopleI spoke to in the pubtonightwere so drunkthat when they spokethey spat all over me the third personwas either soberor missed  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~   QUIET MAN ninety per centof whatmost people sayis...

Flash fiction by Tola Ositelu

This was the sixth Doctor’s surgery he was visiting that week.  Harold had long ago resigned himself to the fact he had a problem.  That he savoured the pleasure of sitting around, observing the infirm.  Usually after a couple of hours of avoiding the...