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The CHILLFILTR Review showcases hand-picked short stories, essays, and poems from around the world.
The Golden Moon
A chronicle of love, tragedy, and enduring connection. - photo credit: Jens Lindner
by Fatima Okhuosami
Wanted
A precocious ten-year-old boy searches for the meaning of life. - photo credit: Aaron Burden
by Gale Acuff
Hunger
A poem that was written indoors during quarantine while craving movies, travel, fine dining and the great outdoors. - photo credit: Joshua Hoehne
by Lanette Ware-Bushfield
Drunk Promises Are Hard to Keep: Beginning is Easy - Finishing is Hard.
Emotions are simply the clothes that we wear. They are not flesh. On his last day, my father slept, and did not wake up. I heard his lungs fight for air.
by Krister Bjornson Axel
The Tao of Cézanne: Error is the Natural State of a Complex System.
The Cézannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error necessarily takes a long time to come to fruition. (Malcom Gladwell, The New Yorker, October 13, 2008)
by Krister Bjornson Axel
Durkey? Turkuck? - A Spontaneous Visit to the Wilds of Grants Pass.
Perhaps it is true that the idea of this world as a great mountain that reaches above the clouds, pinched from subterranean plates of earth and rock, can sustain itself on symbolism alone.
by Krister Bjornson Axel
Impulsiveness.
Tomorrow will not remember today, except that we command it to do so. Yet, I have never been one to deify the past. photo credit: Gabriel Gabriel
by Krister Bjornson Axel
Tell Me How to Feel. - A Note on the Origins of Collective Opinion in the Modern Age.
I yield the remainder of my time to the youngster who speaks, without irony, for an entire generation. Photo credit: @laimannung
by Krister Bjornson Axel