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Mementos of the Afterlife By; Sara L Rowley Chapter One I would say cheapness and an incompetent mechanics shop landed me on an embalming table. Currently I am a corpse trying to adjust to my new surroundings. The idea seems a little awkward to me. To wander in a strange limbo not knowing what purpose this place serves or my role in it. I’m in what can be called the ER waiting room of the afterlife. I’ve been sitting in these chairs whose colors reminded me of the baby food colors gone wrong ...

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Summer Delights By: Sara L Rowley Watermelons gliding along my skin. Sweet pink juice, collects in my belly button. Supply sticky and wet where have you been? I selected our love nest at the inn. Your words suffocate me and weigh a ton. Watermelons gliding along my skin. Ice crinkles and crackles as you pour a gin. Hands delve into water of Lake Padden. Supple sticky and wet where have you been. Passion and sex drives are not a sin. Hair wispy and silky soft as cotton. Watermelons gliding alo...

I stared at spongy yellow bone marrow, and the red rope muscle wrapped around cut spaghetti tendons. My mouth filled with stomach acid and formaldehyde. The sheet peeled back revealing the head of the skinless corpse. His lips looked like two earth worms stuck together. I picked at my dry chapped lips. The sheet kept rolling down the corpse as though the professor was peeling an onion. I saw the lungs next black holes and burnt flesh. He died of lung cancer, worked in a print shop. I thought ...

Flesh Wishbone child formed in the rearview window. Streetlights flicker an animal approaches. Nose pressed into the ground tongue darting out moving side to side. Tasting the next midnight snack. Half the child runs home, the other half sits next to me. I press on the gas lurching forward and looking back.