Donna Dallas

With Love from Ocala

Ain’t a miracle she came home knocked up 
after eight years of marriage 
she waddled around
with the baby name book 
makin list upon list  
stuff you didn’t get done 
cuz it interfered with your beers and shows 
but later when that kid crawls around 
on the cracked linoleum 
blonde wave of hair 
cornflower blue eyes
starin you down 
you know damn well kid ain’t yours
he look kinda goofy 
no-how yours

Old lady runnin around in house slippers
when you met she was wearin those stilettos 
you thinkin how you gonna send this kid back
this foul mouthed little shit
look nothin like you

And now y’all sittin on the back porch 
she’s potbellied and run down 
you’re itchin to get at her anyhows 
but this kid is suckin its thumb to a nub
got nothin to do with your dark hair
your eyes black as night 
and olive skin rough now 
from all that outdoors work you didn’t do

Something ain’t right with this dirty thing
rollin around the floors like a pig in mud

It ain’t right you say

Maybe it’s ok the little runt 
is loose in the walls 
and you’ll grow fondness 
or perhaps some admiration 
when the kid’s old enough y’all can have a chat 
a little tete-a-tete at the table 
with the devil servin y’all 
those baby blues starin 
straight into the soul you don’t have 
needling the message you dead-ass missed
about shootin blanks 

Mather Schneider 

Distraction Under the Sad Sonoran Sun

Two portable radios 
on two different stations,

one American sports talk radio,
the other Mexican music, sit side 

by side on the outside window sill
as a kind of fucked up compromise

while my Mexican wife and I work 
at grunt chores in the yard, 

pretending we are free  
of financial pressure, 

free of the imminence 
of old age,

free of the hatred in our hearts
and the numbness of our fingers

and have only the sunflowers
and arugula to worry about.

George Gad Economou

Early Morning Cocktails

the dragon-filled meadows come to life
again

as I stare at the sweating glass of gin and tonic.
ten in the morning, no better way to prepare for 
another day of pure nothingness—the bars last night
were rough, no new faces,

only whiskey nursing flies and we had someone to ache for, 
a face we tried to drink away till last call came and stumbled
our way home—some to the nearest park, others to their 
little corners underneath bridges made of snow. 

tiny dark room, encapsulated by
thick clouds of blue smoke; there were no fights, aside from one I picked
with a lamppost that wouldn’t budge, 

and no women. the drink gives me strength
to carry on for another day and hope for a different result. 

in the grasp of insanity for years, always looking for
ways out, even when I want in.
the glass’s dangerously empty, one poem more than enough
to drain it; 

time for a stronger refill, save on the tonic for
when she comes back.

Jim Suruda

Pentagram

His eyes lock onto hers. She glares back up at him, defiant, unblinking. Holds his gaze as she strains against her bondage. She flexes her shoulders. The loops of rope that bind her wrists behind her back hold firm. Too tight. She exhales a long breath.

One of his arms snakes out behind him to snatch up a cushion from the couch. He drops it in front of her on the worn hardwood floor.

“Kneel on that.”

His voice rumbles deeper than any human voice. Like river rocks shifting under a spring flood, a summer thunderstorm just over a ridge. That voice – not human at all. Neither are his long ebony horns, his multi-jointed claws, nor that shifting cloud of black heat-shimmer that trails along as he walks by on obsidian hooves. Not human. Inhuman. If she could just distract him long enough to…

SLAP!

The sting makes her wince, clench her jaw. She falls to her knees on the cushion.

“I don’t like to ask twice,” he whispers low as he tosses aside the horsewhip. The red welt across her breast burns like fire. He runs his thumb over her cheek to brush away a tear. Dips his finger into her mouth.

“Such defiance requires…consequences,” he growls as he circles his finger over her lips, “first, I’m going to fuck that pretty little mouth.” He stands to his full height, shifts his hips so that his cock bobs over her upturned face. The shaft is glistening, smoothly veined, with a slight upward curve.

“Then I’m going to make you wish…”

DING!

He grumbles, whirls at the sound from the kitchen. Wisps of black mist trace pentagrams in the air behind him as he strides out of the room. She can see him hunched over the counter, one finger outstretched towards a device of metal and glass. He’s distracted. This is her chance. She strains against the ropes that bind her ankles and wrists. If she can just slip her thumb under the knot.

He whirls to face her, one obsidian talon clutching…a French press.

“Babe, do you want oat milk in yours?” he rumbles through the archway.

“Oh,” she sighs, “we’re all out. I can take it black.”

His jagged jack-o-lantern mouth curves into a smile as his forked tail snakes up over his shoulder. He wiggles a carton of organic oat milk back and forth with his prehensile tail. Tiny beads of condensation fly from the carton to the kitchen tiles.

“Guess who picked up a fresh quart on the way home?”

She smiles, settles comfortably into her cushion. 

“Now that’s a good boy.”

PW Covington

Some Exquisite Lingerie

I’d come over
And take a seat on the sofa
With your husband

You’d sit across the room
In that leather, high-back chair
And pack a bowl

You’d tell me to pull out
My already swelling cock

Then tell him to get down
On the floor before me

Then, after
After he came back
From brushing his teeth

He’d hand me his AmEx
And say that he’d have brunch ready
When we returned, the next day

It only lasted a year or so
But you ended up with
Some exquisite lingerie

Casey Renee Kiser

Queen Hard-on / Fright Night

King of superficial, ha,
spanks louder till she’s special
Future-fakes for a moment-medal
Thinks a shooting star will settle
Well, bless his heart

Put him on a pedestal
A hot ghost to keep her cool
Truth always cums on a bar stool
Queen Hard-on chose a dull tool
Well, bless her heart

Angels and a demon
She’s in a thousand deserts
drowning in semen
Demons and an angel,
both just wanna hike their skirts;
take turns with the label
Well,
bless their checkered hearts…

Gather broken clocks, no feeling
They take turns revealing
She crawls on his ceiling
Karmic wheel is misery-healing
Why is Love always leaving
and rarely 
coming…
Cum on, get a beating, just beat it,
beat me, eat me, lick the icing gone,
some tough love, jerked around, 
jerk it all night, jerks all around, 
jerks for everyone
until everyone is found

A cosmic collide on a freaky Friday,
Bad love dresses up as a good lay
Wind gets a kick blowin’ the wrong way
In the mirror, he thinks he hears her say
I’m taking my soul back tonight
He pleads with his pseudo reflection
Cum on baby, 
don’t leave me in this forever-fright
night

C. D. Kester

After the Bell

I squeezed and pulled as my body tensed. I could feel it, I was about to cum. It was even more thrilling to be doing it in the bathroom of the locker room at school. I braced myself as I pressed my hand against the wall and leaned back as I thrust my hand faster and faster.

I could see Sarah’s thong sticking out of her shorts in the weight room and I just couldn’t help myself. The way that she looked at me when she looked back and caught me looking at it. I just lost it.

I tried to keep myself quiet but couldn’t help but to let out some gentle moans as I felt the cum bursting out of me. I barely pulled my gray athletics shirt back in time as the warm white liquid pooled up on my belly and began to slide down.

I just sat there for a second before I started to come to my senses. What the fuck was I doing? I missed shower time and now I was going to be late to class. So stupid! I guess sometimes you just can’t fight the urge, though. I had to admit, it was quite the thrill. If anyone asked, I would just say that I had the runs and couldn’t get off the toilet. The classic Taco Bell excuse. Nothing to worry about.

I cleaned up my mess and made my way out of the bathroom and back into the lockers. My towel was in my locker number 327. “A. Perkins,” it said. More like Jerkins, I thought to myself and smirked.

I grabbed my towel and body wash and made my way to the lonely shower. Suddenly, I heard the main door to the hallway slam shut. The bell ring for next period when I was barely 3 strokes in. Why would anyone be in here right now?

I shrugged it off and placed my soap on the little shelf under the shower head. Our school had the showers with four nozzles on each side of a pole and a few poles like that throughout the room. Which of course means that we get to be about an arm’s length away from each other while scrubbing our junk and our buttholes. Pretty degrading, but after working up a sweat it beats going to class smelling like shit.

I turned the water on and let the water start to warm up. A locker slammed shut somewhere nearby causing me to jump. I looked around near the lockers but saw nothing.

I called out, “Hey. Anybody there?”

No answer. Probably somebody messing with me because they knew I was lagging behind. I was just hoping that nobody ran up with a towel rolled up and ready to snap my bare ass. I always hated that shit, and I really didn’t want to deal with it while I was already late to class.

There were no other sounds, so I began to get myself wet and scrub myself down with body wash. Just as I was covered in suds and about to go back into the water to rinse myself off, I saw something that I almost couldn’t believe.

It was Sarah. She had her hair pulled back in a ponytail and was still wearing her clothes from athletics. She smirked at me as she noticed the disbelief on my face. She walked up closer, almost into the shower room and looked at me up and down.

“I saw you looking at me in the weight room, Aaron. Was there something you wanted to do to me?”

She turned around and slowly revealed the thong that was sticking up out of her shorts. She looked back and teased me as she pulled the shorts lower and lower until I could finally see her entire beautifully rounded ass in all of its glory. Holy shit! I can’t believe this is happening to me.

My little buddy wasn’t able to keep his cool and stood at full attention right away. She pulled her shorts back up and walked over to me slowly. She stalked me like a lion chasing a gazelle that was preparing to pounce. She made her way behind me and stopped just out of view. This time as she spoke her voice was no longer the silky sweet voice that she was tantalizing me with just a moment ago. It was deep and twisted. Almost demonic.

It said, “What do you think you’re going to do with that tiny little fucking dick?”

I spun around in terror and humiliation. It wasn’t Sarah that stood behind me. It was Mark Theisman, the quarterback of the football team who loved to give me shit every chance that he could. His face was tense, and he appeared to be fuming.

“Huh? Answer me you little fucken prick! I said what are you gonna do with that tiny little fucking dick?”

I looked down at my member, now fully flaccid and even a little bit shrunken from the cold as I stood outside of the water.

“I uhhh… But you… It wasn’t you, I… I don’t understand.”

His fury turned into a sadistic grin. The rest of the football team began to file out from around the locker. I was surrounded.

“You don’t have to understand Aaron. The only thing that you need to understand is this.”

He reached into his backpack and dropped it revealing what was left in his hand. A large pair of scissors. In horror I looked around the room and realized every football player was carrying a pair as well and they were getting closer and closer.

“We’re gonna cut your fucking dick off Aaron.”

He opened the scissors slowly and closed them at once. The noise of the blades slicing against each other made my balls tingle and my body cringe. He repeated the motion, and the football players did as well. They continued their slow approach and opened and closed the scissors rhythmically like the beat of a drum.

Mark was just feet away as I decided I couldn’t take anymore. I began pleading and crying. I fell to the floor and curled into a ball. I covered my eyes and blocked my junk with my legs and my arms. Just when I felt like they were about to be right on top of me a new voice came from the spot where Mark had been standing.

“Aaron? Aaron, is that you? What are you doing on the ground like that, darling?”

I uncovered my eyes and looked up. It was Miss Ferris the athletic director. She helped me up and looked very concerned as she looked around to see what had shocked me. Seeing nothing she walked out of the shower and looked the other way.

In the same sweet and concerned voice she said, “Go ahead and finish rinsing off. I’ll take you to the nurse after you get yourself dressed.”

I did as she said and got the remainder of the soap off with the shower head that was still running from before all this craziness began. I closed my eyes to wash the soap out of my hair and let the water run on my face for a second.

I said, “Thank you so much Miss Ferris, I don’t even know what’s going on with me. I was just running a little behind because I was in the restroom and…”

I took my face out of the water and wiped the water from my eyes. Her face was staring directly at me, the eyes were entirely white, and her body was still facing the complete opposite direction.

She spoke in a high-pitched whiny voice that sounded like a combination of breaking glass and nails on a chalkboard. “Oh, you don’t have to thank me, Aaron. The fun has only just begun.”

As she shrieked with delight and her face contorted, she let out a howling maniacal cackle. I bolted for the door, slipping, and nearly falling the whole way there, but never turning back.

Dawn Pisturino

Smoking Hot Love

They said smoking would injure my health.
I lit up a menthol, feeling the cool vapor
Swirl down my throat in a gust of ecstasy.
He found me in the garden, under a tree,
Where the smoke curled around my head,
Like an angel’s halo, and caught me in his arms.
Dragging on that butt, I blew smoke rings
Into his mouth. He swallowed them whole.
My coal burned with red-hot passion.
He took it from my fingers and put it to his lips,
Inhaled quietly, and exhaled a gentle
Cloud of smoke across my face.
I breathed it in, inhaling the essence of his love.
He crushed the butt under his foot,
Pulled me to the ground,
And unbuttoned my smoke-perfumed blouse.
My heart burst into flame.

Michael D. Amitin

Brunei Girl

She said she wanted to celebrate her eighteenth birthday
At the Beverly Hills Hotel
Her younger brother Aptos 
Chirped that this venerated institution
Owned by the illustrious Sultan of Brunei, 
Not a nice man by many accounts, 
Was not a nice choice

The Sultan, real name Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin,
Meaning ‘abode of peace’, 
Had recently declared that all peacable Bruneians
Who were gay would be stoned to death

And sinning adulterers 
Sneaking about the Brunei night
Feral alley cats they are, wouldn’t fare much better 
Fatal stones apparently in vast supply in Brunei…
plentiful as girl sex slaves

I suggested a more pacifist destination
Joe’s Diner downtown which fell flat as an american pancake
on a grease pit grill