advance apology for my audacity . . . — A hussy who was tickled over testicles a hippie, she hit all the summer festivals down in Death Valley at the Wild Gonad Rally her greedy groping becomes a spectacle. My hunny sports a crotch full of stubble lends an evil scrub to his scrotal bubble his stickery scrotum is my mojo modem but…

what’s skulking in the depths . . . — Once was a crone who went crackers over dogs being lofty as linebackers a mutt should be terse to fit within a purse so handy when wracked by snackers. Once was a dingbat so demented didn’t see her purse wasn’t vented stuffed her dog deep inside soon it croaked, cross-eyed her bag sent a…

a mythical zenith flanked by dimwits . . . — Lapideous Lapin and a Lyrical Lop hop to the uppermost mountaintop cocoa puffs drop a poopy plop-plop belaying buddies bound to bellyflop. Ridgeback Reporter and Rangy Rapper toss their collaboration in the crapper carabineers fail to deliver a snapper but glossy glacial goggles do look dapper. Porcine Poet and a…

it means: more than one thousand shoutouts . . . — Now is my moment to gloat. I’m pretty excited about hitting issue number one hundred. Pedro Rafael . . . a poem with powerful symbolism: Where Could You Be? Always freemedium.com A. Alexander (Alex) gifts us with this soaring photo-essay: Birds of Prey Photoshoot An educational and fun experiencealexrbstoryteller.medium.com Cliff Wise . . . drumming my favorite brand of common sense:

feeling like wallpaper . . . let’s take a twirl . . . — Some writing doesn’t come with a splash, but the quiet ones can fool ya. I love a wallpaper story secretly stealing my heart or blowing my mind. Don’t dismiss a story due to drab wallpaper. James Krallen . . . thank you for arresting my heart: Cage of Secrets In the tomb of my heart I loved you Your kiss echoed into the deep Where I kept a cage of secrets Under lock and key…medium.com

controversial writing need not provoke a reaction . . . — A few pieces, I almost skipped over to avoid that which might be off-putting or controversial. Whenever I see myself with this motive, I reverse myself and add the article anyway. Jack Vance . . . for those feeling this has become a vital struggle: Defeating the Christian Right Requires Better Organization and Strategy Coming Together For Our Collective Defensemedium.com

when our writing becomes interconnected . . . — Sometimes we can watch a wave of a particular flavor wash over the writers here, but each piece expresses this common theme in wildly varying ways. This is what cross-pollination is all about on a writing website. …