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Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 01/08/24

January 8, 2024 James D. Casey IV

Shoeboxes on the Moon

A sentiment is consuming my existence
I need another shoebox
I will claim this from the moon with insistence

In times of questioning I go to the moon
I’m there alone
and there in a blink are boxes

I hear the one calling the loudest
I move closer
to catch in a snatch lost words

Red…
shoebox on the moon
hide my anger said

Green…
shoebox on the moon
hide my jealousy seen

Blue…
shoebox on the moon
hide my thoughts taboo

For sentiment full of death
I demand a black box
I want that shoebox before I take another breath

Television man is hazy
Heart bleeds remorse
This wrong horse

©2024 L. Sydney Abel All rights reserved.

L. Sydney Abel was born in Kingston upon Hull, England. He’s an author of psychological fiction with his novel 12:07 The Sleeping being based on personal experience of sleep paralysis. He’s written and illustrated several children’s books and a Y/A novel.

Poetry is his personal escape in his book Tongue is a Fire and the upcoming One ASYLUM.

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Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 09/29/21

September 29, 2021 James D. Casey IV

Alive With No Regrets

When my family departed here earlier this evening my brother’s wife remarked in passing, “I’m so glad you’re not dead.”

I could only reply, “Me too. It does free up the senses, doesn’t it?”

She looked at me and smiled and then they closed the door and it was another day here, just me here alone with my cat. Still not dead yet.

Will Mayo is the author of Dreams Of Mongolia, Hoodoo Voodoo, The Shells Encasing Our Nothingness, Bone Talking, and other books of the extraordinary. He lives with his six-toed black cat in Frederick, Maryland, said by some to be the most haunted city in the state. Most of his writing is done between the hours of 3 a.m. and sunrise. He enjoys wordplay and strange tales, and hopes you do too.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 07/19/21

July 19, 2021 James D. Casey IV

Solitary Death Notice

Alone!
I cried out.
Priest says, Go online, I’m not a dating site.
Mother says, Go online, I’m not a dating site.
Father says, Go online, I’m not a dating site.
Sister says, Go online, I’m not a dating site.
Brother says, Go online, I’m not a dating site.
Friend says, Go online, I’m not a dating site,
Community shouts, Go online, we’re not a dating site!
OK!
I Went online.
Found a dating site.
Met a killer.
Taste for blood.
Days later stink gave me away.
Pronounced dead in my home.

P. C. Moraitis is a columnist and poet born in Detroit, Michigan. She has written theater, operatic and symphonic reviews for The Troy-Summerset Gazette, The Monitor, The Northwest Detroiter and The Dearborn Times Herald. After all, life has its share of comedy and drama.

Long before Brad Pitt made it stylish, she has been eating peanut butter on a spoon.