“Daisy jumped over the moon.” — a father’s story becomes a lifeline against the unbearable.
Chuck Schading’s piece is a blend of grief, love, and imagination.
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#ShortFiction #LitMag #Grief #Storytelling #Love
The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.
We like reading the resulting works, if that counts.
“We got each other.” — Alynne’s world narrows to survival, until Bandit expands it again. Peyton Ellas’s “Bandit” traces dignity, danger, and loyalty in the spaces where systems fail.
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#ShortFiction #LitMag #Dogs #Survival #ShortStory
“‘What you really like… is being unsupervised.’”
A man loops his old neighborhood — circling memory, work, and a father slipping away. “Speaking of Ice Cream” lingers where humor meets heartbreak.
sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/17/s...
#fiction #amreading #literature #shortstory
“‘We don’t talk about things we don’t like.’”
A child’s memory becomes a reckoning with inheritance — silence, expectation, and the quiet art of rebellion. Read “The Inheritance.”
sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/16/t...
#memoir #writing #literature #womenwriters #shortstory #fiction
“The room cannot be entered, the door is open…”
A haunting poem of memory, longing, and the spaces we can’t quite return to.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/15/w...
#poetry #memory #longing #writing #literature
“The map changes when the light shifts.”
A quiet, searching poem about identity, the body, and finding language for love.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/14/w...
#poetry #identity #love #writing #literature
“Altering the air and licking the borders…”
A quiet morning disrupted — this poem turns comfort into unease with a single, slithering presence.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/13/v...
#poetry #writing #atmosphere #tension #literature
“Poems just coming / shopping lists.”
A sharp, relatable poem about writer’s block, doubt, and the search for inspiration.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/12/p...
#poetry #writing #writersblock #inspiration #literature
“Plastic roses bloom.”
A series of Paris haikus where beauty, artifice, and quiet moments drift along the canal.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/11/h...
#poetry #haiku #paris #travel #writing
My friend had never needed so much shoulder // so much ferocity to ferry her intent
“She, who heals, hadn’t grasped what I, a butcher, knew.”
A striking poem about the tension between care, force, and lived knowledge.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/10/v...
#poetry #writing #labor #ethics #literature
The human endeavor requires constant struggle against entropy.
In David E. Matthews’ visual poem, Sisyphus pauses — but only for a moment. The work always resumes.
#Entropy #VisualPoetry #Sisyphus #Philosophy #ArtAndScience
A room holds everything — love, memory, and loss.
A quiet, moving poem about what remains after someone is gone.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/09/a...
#poetry #grief #memory #love #writing
“I lost it twice half-finished…”
A sharp, minimalist poem about books, loss, and the art of never quite finishing.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/08/m...
#poetry #books #reading #minimalism #writing
“I touch the snow to feel you again.”
A quiet, haunting poem where absence lingers in the cold and memory becomes something you reach for.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/07/w...
#poetry #love #loss #winter #writing
“You only want what you want when you can’t have it.”
A tense, lyrical poem about longing, denial, and the charged space in between.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/06/l...
#poetry #longing #desire #writing #literature
“You think you know someone, but you only nip the flesh.”
A haunting poem about fleeting connections, aging, and the quiet distance between people.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/05/d...
#poetry #friendship #aging #writing #memory
“The tree feels #noshame.”
A vivid, visceral poem where hunger, nature, and desire blur into something unapologetically alive.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/04/n...
#poetry #nature #writing #desire #art
“Where life appears as death in still disguise.”
A dark, atmospheric poem where beauty and menace blur in the swamp’s uneasy stillness.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/03/t...
#poetry #nature #darkpoetry #writing #literature
Many thanks to @sanantoreview.bsky.social for publishing my poem "All All #72" on their website.
sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/02/a...
What you don’t write gives what you do its power.
In this response to Toni Morrison, David E. Matthews explores silence as form — where poetry approaches zero and meaning expands.
#ToniMorrison #VisualPoetry #ConceptualPoetry #ArtAndLanguage #Poetics
“I thought songs of peace were worth a life.”
A stark, urgent poem confronting war, identity, and what it means to count.
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#poetry #politics #writing #peace #literature #war
“Another word for love is gamble.”
A neon-soaked poem of chance, desire, and fleeting connection between strangers.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/01/l...
#poetry #love #writing #desire #literature
“She signs the register as ‘B,’ all that was left.”
A powerful, fragmented poem where life is tallied in loss, memory, and survival.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/03/31/h...
#poetry #writing #memory #grief #literature
“The mist… washes the traces of barriers.”
A poem where Niagara Falls becomes a force for unity beyond borders, politics, and division.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/03/30/t...
#poetry #nature #unity #writing #globalvoices
“A fort that contains infinity now.”
A nostalgic poem where childhood spaces become whole worlds — and memory builds what time can’t erase.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/03/29/h...
#poetry #nostalgia #childhood #writing #memory
“Forfeit a part of you to accumulate another.”
A stark, haunting poem on sacrifice, memory, and the cost of becoming.
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#poetry #writing #identity #art #literature
“You stay stuck in the concaves of my footprints.”
A sharp, mythic poem about power, growth, and leaving others behind.
Read at sanantonioreview.org/2026/03/27/g...
#poetry #writing #empowerment #literature #art