Author: Lion and Lilac
Writing evil or writing Myths —A review of Miss J Diaries
Miss J Diaries reads like a maniac scrawling in a diary and that, I believe is the intention of the Author. Dare Zaenab holds nothing back as she opens this wine bottle of short stories. For a debutant short story writer, there are shaky grounds, yes but overall, she came out of her shell with […]
Warring the war of life; a review of Adeola Juwon’s Ellipsis
Title: Ellipsis Author: Adeola Juwon Gbalajobi Publisher: The Roaring Lion Newcastle Year of Publication: 2021 Number of pages: 52 Category: Poetry Reviewer: Babatunde Adeleke Robin Oliveira, the American Author was the one who quipped that “Love and War, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One has to hurry before the fires flared out”. […]
Ibrahim Olawale’s Debut – Prisoner of Love resonates for its familiarity
Literature has a way of giving life to our shared human experiences. Love poetry seems to be the most popular poetry since the advent of poetry writing. That’s not unexpected. As humans, we fall in and out of love, experience heartbreak, loss, and false love. The poem that resonated with me most is “Immigrant’s […]
Blood on The Dancefloor elevates the girl-child to a higher pedestal
Reviewed by Creative Titan. Writing about the plight of the girl child, the abuse and rape issues deserve the utmost care and attention because of the sensitive nature of these issues. Who best to bring these to the fore than a writer? Writers have been known to write about the mundane and the heart-wrenching […]
Ode to the Furnace |Robert Penick |Flash Fiction
The absolute best sound on Earth to me is the furnace coming on in winter. There is a click, then a full second of silence, then the whoosh as the gas kicks in and ignites. There is a certain reassurance there, knowing that something is protecting me and I might somehow outlive the night. Perhaps […]
Four Poems|Michael Brockley
Aloha Shirt Noir You retired from asking kindergartners to tell you a synonym for lie. And hung your brand-new P. I. shingle over a studio above a graphic novel store on Highway 13. During your last trip to the fiftieth state, you bought a closet-full of Aloha shirts with Hawaii-5-0 badges adrift on a […]
Two Poems|Claire Williams
Put On A Record Darling until now i thought you’d be a god come to rescue me out of my life. now i turn a stone into anything i want, and i no longer have to practice pausing mid-chew to let the bite of flesh dissolve secretly in my mouth. i never asked […]
Four Poems|Lorraine Caputo
THE AFTERNOON RAINS HAVE COME AGAIN Sometimes it showers an hour before sunset or perhaps between midday & dusk Sometimes the dawn breaks with fog crawling through valleys & narrow streets Sometimes the night with a come-again rain washing down the hills, down the roofs, across the terrace Sometimes a silent […]
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD|John Grey
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD In the morning, you mull over the bloody reverie of last night, and why there’s not the same regret as there was in years long past. Werewolf. Damn that word. Why give it a different name than your own. You accept yourself. The hairy beast, the man […]
Three Poems|Parthasarathy Muralidharan
Unknowing her I devoted a whole Sunday ahead of her birthday for her I first thought of a broche but couldn’t recall her hair style whether she used a broche or not Fancy bangles were good but I didn’t know her hand size I couldn’t recall the authors she mentioned rarely so books were […]