by Lunchbox Editor | Nov 24, 2023 | Poetry
Here is one thing that I’m not I am not the carpet that holds your feet (I am starting to see something Maybe we are one and the same Cut from the same cloth) Maybe I am just as fluent in lies and just as prickly as a sandpaper tongue I run away from...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 23, 2023 | Poetry
What marked the end of my youth’s blissful monotony: a chance encounter; spurred by rapacious temptations, I gave up my body for a wallet’s offer. The taste of euphoria outweighed any pang of guilt or regret, but life, as it always does, came to...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 23, 2023 | Poetry
I thought for sure that in the gaps between my fingers there were fairies who made their home. The years run on into eternity until they’re over and it’s like they were never even there, and I wonder why I didn’t sip from the fountain before the water ran dry....
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 23, 2023 | Articles
Over a decade ago, among many valuable pieces of wisdom, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation) questioned: “What is it that allows us the creative freedom in our dreams that we don’t have in our waking lives… I don’t know,...
by Lunchbox Editor | Apr 23, 2023 | Fiction
She approached the boardwalk parking lot slowly; the drops from the windshield wipers cast a shadowy mix of blues, reds, and yellows across the leather seats. Abby felt a gloomy solace in her car, while the rain thrummed overhead. The years had transformed her. While...
