Frank G. Karioris (he/they/him/them) is a writer and educator based in Pittsburgh whose writing addresses issues of friendship, masculinity, and gender.
From #MeToo to the White House: Malignant Phraseology Vol. 1: You’re the Crazy One
I heard your eye’s screaming whisper, catching those blinding-dark glimpses behind my recycled aluminum mask. How dare you question me with able-minded accounts!
A “Fair” Trial with No Witnesses
Our Republican senators are attempting to pull a fast one (one of many)— to rig the impeachment trial and make …
Erasure the Occupant #16-19 | Trump Tells Some Truths About Charlottesville, by Jay Mog
Photo is from Xavier Medina’s “Homage To King” sculpture in Atlanta. Text is from “Trump full news conference at Trump …
waking in the center of The Dark Triad
by Hokis, first published 10.19.19
in grief, we rebel against oursouls
towards the Narcissist’s obtuse angle. we lite the gas
stove. invite the dark to our Thanks-
giving table, offer hIM a crown.
BREAKING NEWS! | “Never Again” remains an empty echo, by Marc Nelson
Sketch. Again, thousands of civilians in Idlib Syria are forced from any semblance of home. Moments of joy and peace …
FLASHBACK Poetry | Give it a Rest, a poem by Lee Kottner
01/29/2017 Day 10: Give It A Rest The perfidy won’t stop but you have to at least for a day. …
GLOBAL Feature | Bedouin, by Ronnie Smith
From the ridge was everything. Everything he had ever known. His world, yet it had meant nothing to others. …
Roe v Wade-related | Because She Says So, by Pavlina Marie Wilkin
The telephone when it rang For the early 20s end of the line gathering pace In hopeless circumstances …
A Love-Philter for Martin Luther
portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, public domain “There is no …
Crown The Devils
Part 1; Masquerade Crown the devils in their broken masquerade The blind eyes intertwined beneath the shattered face Watch the …
