Menkiss Monthly

“They’re all dead!” A gust of wind blew hot and heavy through the yard, carrying his voice over it as his words fell like knives, their points burrowing deep into the grass. And my heart. Just beneath the window, I sat amongst the sunken stems and withered leaves of the garden as my breath was […]

He consumed his feelingslike a child swallows mints:excited at the first taste buttoo hasty, too eager, to allowthem to settle too long. They rest,the dregs of an old half-drunk soda,left to bake in some car far too long. He wore moods like clothes;changed once, twice, or elsethrown in the hamper dirty themoment they touched his […]

Deafness fall upon me, foul words I’ll heed no more as you scatter them like Rapeseed at the Earth outside my door. – From bloom of sickly spindles, leaves of cabbage, white as milk, petals burnt a Yield-less Yellow, they asphyxiate their ilk. – Their nettles rise to meet my feet, draw blood like mourning […]

Frustration is a silent companion who sits in the front seat as you pump gas in the bitter cold, laughing as it locks the door with your keys inside. It hovers, just above your shoulder, as you hunch low over the stove; it chatters as you count spices, flicking flecks of spit into the pot […]

Some say there are days which will stick in our memory like how to a strip of brown paper a fly might become glued; In a child’s first words, on one’s gold-gilded birthday, or when another first tells them, “I do”: But as I am too young for that, I know My day comes on […]

It was a daisy that killed the Vanterbombs. Prized from the Earth, stolen from its home, it had lived just long enough to bring down the house around it before it withered and faded. As for the family, they woke up one morning dead, with their legs in the air and their faces in the […]

He reached for the cup, frowning at its lightness, before sucking down the last cold dregs to drop it into the bin beneath his desk. His eyes stung like bees; he pressed hard into them with his palm, massaging deeply. He felt as though he had been awake for a lifetime. He glanced at the […]