Poetry Booklets Novels & Stories

He opened the door to find a delivery man holding a small box. “Package for Liam Bennett,” the man said, handing it over. He frowned. He hadn’t ordered anything. When he checked the label, his breath caught. The sender’s name was blurred from rain but beneath the smudge, he recognized the handwriting. Amara’s. He carried it inside carefully, heart pounding. The box was small, light. Inside was a single item wrapped in tissue a book. He peeled back the paper slowly. It was the same poetry collection they’d once shared on a rainy night Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.

Her hands tingled as a thought popped up in her head: her fingertips have some glow to them, as if she just dipped them into some periwinkle glitter. "I want to have a book," she whispered. "I want to be able to write something that nobody else can see." Before she could even properly say her wish, her hands moved on their own. As she drew waves in the wind, a book appeared out of nowhere, floating right in front of her. It was a blank book, with covers made from gold, it seems. When she opened the pages, there was nothing written. The blank pages were waiting for her to input something.

Wouldn’t be appropriate of me as her new employer, obviously. Moving a small bundle of paperbacks—poetry collections, WB Yeats, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman—I notice a rectangular piece of paper the size of a postcard lying at the bottom of the box. I set the poetry collections aside and pick it up. Of course, I have seen several Yellow Cabs patrolling the streets of Clifton Heights. But I’ve never ridden in one and I don’t pay much attention to them. I don’t plan on doing so anytime soon, nor am I contemplating a trip out to the old Shelby Road Cemetery or Bassler House, looking for strange symbols on doorknobs.

Russell Samurai and Other Stories by William Meikle Stuck On You and Other Prime Cuts by Jasper Bark Poetry collections: WAR by Alessandro Manzetti and Marge Simon Brief Encounters with My Third Eye by Bruce Boston No Mercy: Dark Poems by Alessandro Manzetti Eden Underground: Poetry of Darkness by Alessandro Manzetti If you’ve ever thought of becoming an author, we’d also like to recommend these non-fiction titles: The Dead Stage: The Journey from Page to Stage by Dan Weatherer