The Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen Literary Collective loves a good writing/creativity prompt challenge. Our goal is to provide prompts on a regular basis. We hope that our ‘Shadow in the Frame’ prompt stirs your muse and that you consider submitting your prompt response to Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen for publication. We welcome poetry, prose, flash fiction, creative […]
Writing/Creativity Prompt Challenge: My Ego Dies at the End
her words dusty tired worn
holy spirit elements exhausted
she retreats to the echoes of chipped thoughts woven in the breeze of city light
the building of her birth stands silent
alone like her
taps and clacks threshold her ear
the scent of her mother writing lists
safety plans never played out
her head leans left
rests on her palm distracting worry
tea spills a little from her fractured
Goodwill dollar vintage cup
a stray from a service for twelve
the warm weep feels good on her skin
Original artwork by Mirjana M. Mirjana M. are a digital artist and writer from Belgrade, Serbia. Their work focuses on exploring the juxtaposition of various elements through mixed media of photography, double exposure, textures and light. Their work most often explores concepts of duality and has appeared in Gulf Stream Literary, The Good Life Review, […]
An Unquiet Mind – Mirjana M.
For the girls who getlost in the woods(and kiss woodcuttersand weres alike.)And find themselves becomingwolvesin time.Blood turns to ginger.Flesh is wine.Veins of black hairsprout on their spine.Blood ginger, blood ginger –grandma for dinner.And maiden, how your teethShine. Your back suppleBlood twisting through yourClaws digWould you careFor a taste, a lickOf blood gingerThe moon blinksWoodcutter boy?There’s […]
Blood Ginger – Iris Ng and Allister Nelson
Hands / Maps / Home is now available to purchase through the Lulu Bookstore and Pothi. All proceeds will be donated to charity. All proceeds from the sale of Hands / Maps / Home will be donated equally between Medical Aid for Palestinians and Save the Children UK – Gaza Emergency Appeal. Every purchase supports […]
AVAILABLE: HANDS / MAPS / HOME
You cast me in a role I played not well. I could never pull off the perfection of pearls ‘bout my neck, though the noose they formed tightened, tightened slowly. The length of chain attached to shackles round my ankles grew ever shorter with each time you held me to the light in the mirror […]
The Narcissist’s Wife – Annette Kalandros
The Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen Literary Collective loves a good writing/creativity prompt challenge. Our goal is to provide prompts on a regular basis. We hope that our ‘Shadow in the Frame’ prompt stirs your muse and that you consider submitting your prompt response to Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen for publication. We welcome poetry, prose, flash fiction, creative […]
Writing/Creativity Prompt Challenge: Shadow in the Frame
in that place
quietly she lives
nobody knows clearly
when or how
her smile stolen
yet she remains
silent like mice
under the rain
eyes deep brown
only dark matter
they have seen
why i wonder
And so, while Hands / Maps / Home is not directly about Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank, the poetry, prose and art is about humanity. We believed collecting this work together as evidence of humanity and all that encompasses was vital in a world where it seems lacking. This anthology houses identity, […]
Hands / Maps / Home (sneak peek!)
how do i tell the Moon that her Venus is gone
far from everything we know high away past the Pleiades and the Milky Way but always in the vicinity of higher power
how do i tell the Moon that her Venus is gone way past forever yet eternally interwoven in star dust and holy silent breaths caressing her head after she’s wept too much
how do i tell the Moon that her Venus is of such love magnitude that we can’t see her as she holds us in her loving arms ebbing and flowing us warmly in her arms
words less spoken 