dreams – Cajun Mutt Press

Cajun Mutt Press FeaturedWriter 07/19/24

July 19, 2024 James D. Casey IV

Hope is

a broken bullseye,
but I keep arrows
in my quiver anyway.
That bright target,

so near I can
almost touch it,
spins like
a neon kaleidoscope,

but I slide
further and further
from light.

Each backward step
takes me deep inside
my forest of self,

where the center
rests: motionless,
unruffled by dreams.

Leah Mueller’s work appears in Rattle, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Citron Review, The Spectacle, New Flash Fiction Review, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. Leah appears in the 2022 edition of Best Small Fictions and was nominated for the 2024 edition. Her two newest books are The Failure of Photography (Garden Party Press, 2023) and Widow’s Fire (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Website: http://www.leahmueller.org.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 05/08/23

May 8, 2023 James D. Casey IV

lucid nightmares

the cold rain beats
down an already
beaten area

apathy runs rampant
as chaos rides the
edge of a knife

some people abhor
violence

some people think
of it as second nature,
like breathing

most days, peace
and war are the
same fucking
thing

lucid nightmares
dance around all
the pain

writhing in bed

once beautiful

now a lost soul
awaiting that final
voyage to death

like an old dog

one of these days
where you just
want to lay in
the sun and sleep
like an old dog

at least i haven’t
started shitting
in the yard

yet another bad dream

screams from another room

too many years of abuse

yet another bad dream

stuck behind the eight ball
as the pressure simply builds

if life is a horse race
you’re stuck on a longshot
just foolish enough to think
one day, i will be a winner

winners already know such
things

losers need to manifest every
little thing into existence

here comes the rain again

supposed to last for three
days

J.J. Campbell (1976 – ?) was raised by wolves yet managed to graduate high school with honors. He’s been widely published over the years, most recently at Horror Sleaze Trash, Synchronized Chaos, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Black Shamrock and The Rye Whiskey Review. You can find him most days on his mildly entertaining blog, evil delights. (https://evildelights.blogspot.com)

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 12/06/21

December 6, 2021 James D. Casey IV

Otherworldly Romance

By candlelight, I visit the mausoleum that holds nothing but death.

Talk with it, I may. Might I even enjoy it, too.

Only I’m not alone, for I see the shadows of curiosity as they watch.

They hover and listen to my secrets and dreams.

Entranced by the girl with such beautiful darkness in her eyes.

Ericca Chavez is an emerging writer and artist based in Northern Utah. She loves anything abnormal, supernatural, and just straight-up magical. She writes whatever sparks her spooky heart, even her beloved sunflower garden. Her poetry and other written works can be found on her Instagram: @ ericca.the writer.