by Junpei Tarashi | May 28, 2022 | 2022 May, Flash Fiction
After she’d blown out the last candle, she informed me that she hadn’t made a wish. This was notspoken in a whisper, as if sharing a secret that the universe shouldn’t overhear, but in her usual tone ofvoice—lilting, almost like a canary singing—because she...
by Junpei Tarashi | May 28, 2022 | 2022 May, Poetry
the doctor wants to know why you’re angry. you shrug. the bees are dying. and that just doesn’t seem fair. she informs you that anger is a “secondary emotion.” that what you really are is sad, or guilty, or deeply, desperately afraid. you dismiss, but not six...
by Junpei Tarashi | Jan 14, 2022 | 2022 January, Poetry
Brandy Alexander by Christian Garduno https://www.agapanthuscollective.com.dream.website/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Brandy-Alexander-song-v2.mp3 Never wake sleeping hearts with a startwhen a whisper is all they needyou ought to know better, even if they don’t-in a...
by Junpei Tarashi | Dec 23, 2021 | 2021, December
Champagne flutes sat used and muddled together in the sink. I stood, absent and barefoot, in the middle of smooth lamplight pooling across the kitchen floor. Things had dwindled down the past hour and only two dozen of Sasha and my families were left lingering...
by Junpei Tarashi | Dec 16, 2021 | 2021, December
Lynette’s War by Chella Courington https://www.agapanthuscollective.com.dream.website/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Lynettes-War.m4a Cousin Lynette says she’s tired from cleaning East Main houses of rich bitches. They don’t even shit like us, got toilet seats that float...