For Pain with Sleeplessness
Fiction by Brian Alan Ellis // I am writing to you from a room. Not a park bench or a bus that’s leaving or going somewhere, nor even a fancy bistro outside of an exotic locale such as Paris or Spain or Hades, just a small room with walls and bugs and lint; a rented room paid for on a dishwasher’s salary. (A cheap room.)
Prophets & Martyrs
Poetry by Howie Good // Tell my father, Jesus’s son says, / that I died with my face to the enemy.
My Oh My
Poetry by Demond Blake // I needed bread / really needed bread / wheat bread
We All Fall Down
Poetry by Howie Good // You’re pretty Jennie Wade in the kitchen mixing biscuits for breakfast.
The Tree
Fiction by Jess Carson // At twenty-eight I sat under the tree as a broken woman. My hands clenched my empty womb in disgust. I fought for nine hours to deliver a child that wouldn’t breathe.
The DAP Journal, No. 1. Fall 2011. Published September 23, 2011. All Rights Reserved. Authors/ artists retain their own Copyright over their work. Editors: Matthew Clair, Deborah Webster-Clair and Jennifer Kan Martinez. Cover Design: Brian Clair. Cover Art: The DAP, Copyright 2011. All Rights Reserved.