Issue: NiftyLit #15

Kenneth Pobo

"At school insults were like standing under the gym shower when freezing words ran down your body. Insult wrote the curriculum, took attendance."

Susan Dugan

"Your friend means well and is right, of course, about the content of dreams. But not about the girl in the pink dress."

Sam Spring

"You lay your head on my lap / and soak in the strawberry lemonade sky, / sipping the last long day of June / out of your glass."

Leslie Grollman

"Wincing, she wonders if this is the Eurydice scene she didn’t get to play on stage long ago; her drama-queen days traded for sensibility."

Dave Fromm

"The sophomore girls clump together in their baggy fits, koala bears laughing, tumbling into the back of someone’s mom’s SUV.  It’s all still ahead for them."