http://martianlit.com no invasion forthcoming or your money back Fri, 12 Sep 2025 13:17:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1609/lost-martians-by-laura-wiseman/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1609/lost-martians-by-laura-wiseman/#comments Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:00:31 +0000 Laura Madeline Wiseman http://martianlit.com/?p=1609 I looked behind the dryer where socks, mittens, and dust bunnies crouch in shadows and lint. I looked inside the closets. I looked under the bed where I’ve found mp3 players, earplugs, and bad dreams.… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1607/christopher-by-hanna-elson/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1607/christopher-by-hanna-elson/#comments Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:00:14 +0000 Hanna Elson http://martianlit.com/?p=1607 Teeth laid in porcelain face— the skin, molars. Bone-colored, carrying bridges. Come to me, angular body and hands clutching a book. Its blue cover’s threaded, paled in age. You read about brothers—a story of birds… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1604/ceasefire-by-mina-gorey/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1604/ceasefire-by-mina-gorey/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:00:27 +0000 Mina Gorey http://martianlit.com/?p=1604 Battle, like fighting for peace. Day and Night. Blind tears of rage no one Hears or knows of, save those few I don’t horrify yet, who see me more Clearly than I see myself. Remember.… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1600/green-thumbs-by-laura-wiseman/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1600/green-thumbs-by-laura-wiseman/#comments Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:00:44 +0000 Laura Madeline Wiseman http://martianlit.com/?p=1600 When Poison Ivy appears at my backyard gate the Martians offer bouquets of Virginia creeper and woven crowns of red-tongued honeysuckle. 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What I meant was that I liked her, that I loved to follow… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1464/quarry-letter-by-seann-mccollum/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1464/quarry-letter-by-seann-mccollum/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 17:45:32 +0000 Seann McCollum http://martianlit.com/?p=1464 My carnivorous darling, my adored Predator, I long to be torn Limb from limb from limb by your Jewel-studded jaws I wish be ripped to pieces Rent in two I want to be devoured as… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1460/i-hope-one-day-you-will-learn-how-to-use-the-oyster-knife/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1460/i-hope-one-day-you-will-learn-how-to-use-the-oyster-knife/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:47 +0000 Tammy Ho Lai-Ming http://martianlit.com/?p=1460 I make a list of things I don’t know: 1) The precise hue of your beard when you’re pouring me wine. 2) The name of the kind of bread you bake. 3) The probably obscene… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1443/mars-vigila/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1443/mars-vigila/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:00:04 +0000 Laura Madeline Wiseman http://martianlit.com/?p=1443 _____Martians don’t masturbate. No _____pinch or stroke. No intoxicants of booze spiked. No Viagra. _____No eye-popping size. No static _____crackle from shirt removed. No _____cry to drift through open window. _____No electric glow of clock… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1316/she-didnt-even-know-who-he-was/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1316/she-didnt-even-know-who-he-was/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:00:14 +0000 Ricky Garni http://martianlit.com/?p=1316 I am wearing a facsimile of glasses worn by a young man when he was shot six times outside his apartment. It was a tragedy and it was infamous so I do not have to… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1312/epithalamion-an-undetected-life-laura-wiseman/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1312/epithalamion-an-undetected-life-laura-wiseman/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:00:43 +0000 Laura Madeline Wiseman http://martianlit.com/?p=1312 The Martians have decided to get married. Bridal magazines unfold on the end tables and curl in the humidity of the bathroom. Every weekend they take the city bus to the mall, to David’s, and… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1284/retroactively-potent/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1284/retroactively-potent/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:00:22 +0000 Tammy Ho Lai-Ming http://martianlit.com/?p=1284 Wanting to use ‘I am your boomerang’ in a poem, I Googled to make sure no one else had used the metaphor. But of course someone else had thought of it before. He also wrote… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1231/probationary-period/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1231/probationary-period/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:00:47 +0000 Kristen McHenry http://martianlit.com/?p=1231 Upon being hired by the Company, all new employees must serve a ninety (90) calendar day trial period. Your performance will be carefully monitored during this period. They say there’s cameras but they won’t tell… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1225/pray-to-lord-i-hope-at-least-one-of-my-ears-doesnt-pop/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1225/pray-to-lord-i-hope-at-least-one-of-my-ears-doesnt-pop/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:00:58 +0000 Tammy Ho Lai-Ming http://martianlit.com/?p=1225 i. Sarah had seen him many times shedding tears exclusively for film characters. And so when Fred cried at the departure gate, she thought they might be in a documentary. ii. Paul asked Jeannie, over… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1155/unidentified-photo-on-the-internet/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1155/unidentified-photo-on-the-internet/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:00:54 +0000 Robert Peake http://martianlit.com/?p=1155 The seaweed men patrol the icy town with sticks wrapped in bumbergrass their hooked beaks hissing steam, eyes painted open against the twilight. They trudge the streets like shaggy marionettes, boots cracking glazed tarmac, past… [more]]]> 0 http://martianlit.com/magazine/1196/last-night/ http://martianlit.com/magazine/1196/last-night/#comments Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:00:13 +0000 Stan Galloway http://martianlit.com/?p=1196 I looked in on you last night. That point-five-second draft of penguin’s breath you thought was just a gust outside the window and the birdcall you’d have sworn was from a horse were clues I… [more]]]> 0