The Only One
Ever took the stairs slowly, each step getting a bit harder than the last to hoist up her hundred-pound body.…
Category: Original Lit
A Beleaguered Search
I hardly knew my old friends; nevertheless, when they said they were coming I felt obliged, from the same sense…
The Ploughman
Hoof beats echoed through the gentle rain and brought the ploughman to his senses. He sighed and let the soil…
Little Miss Perfidious and the Sad, Old, Pervert Hiding in the Corner
I sometimes forget my true love is the contents of the bottle, not those who pour it. But it is…
Poems by Jonas Sidell
Jonas Sidell returns to Gadfly with two more poems: lamenting, peering inward, a reflection on the stripped down feeling that…
Waiting
I was tried. I was sentenced. A charge of murder had been brought against me. The Dueling Laws had, unknown…
Shani’s Boobs: A Poem
What was once an embarrassment can occasionally become a source of pride, though perhaps still a distraction in most cases.…
Killing Tuesday: A Poem
President Obama's Kill List, a compendium of people targeted for assassination, has led anti-war activists and civil libertarians of all…
Fiction: The Rib Children
It waits in the darkness. Looking on with hungry-greedy eyes, tasting the air with a thick, grey tongue. It is…