Six-Word Stories: Rhyming Edition
Icarus
Dad flies. Son defies sun, dies.
News Flash: Daedalus’s Kid Makes Splash
Blockbuster
Asteroid. Earth destroyed. Null and void.
Kansas Widow
Twister missed her, tossed her mister.
Star-crossed
Elephant weds ant. Want kids. Can’t.
Loves Lawyers Lost
He proposed. She opposed. Case closed.
Tears of a Clown
Circus bride lied, visited strongman’s double-wide.
Divorce Court
Assets bled. Lawyers fed. Single bed.
Witch Hunt
Devil’s wiles. Defendants’ denials. Water trials.
Dunked, bound. Verdict found: innocent, drowned.
Joshua Coben’s first book, Maker of Shadows (Texas Review Press, 2010), won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize. His second collection, Night Chaser (David Robert Books, 2020), was a finalist for the Vassar Miller Prize, the New American Poetry Prize, and the Donald Justice Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Light (Summer/Fall 2020), as well as Atlanta Review, The Cincinnati Review, College English, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Visit him online at www.joshuacoben.com.