Novi Martinez

A review on the experience of perusing an art museum with friends while suffering a temporary physical disability

In an attempt to inspire creativity, my friends and I collectively decided to get the gang together for a trip to The High Museum of Arts. Planned weeks in adva…

5 min · Blog Writing · Personal Essay

My grandpa died in 2021. I wrote a series of poems and prose, hoping he might hear my calling from the grave, that he might appear in moments of debilitating so…

7 min · Non-Fiction · Literary

I wake before the crow of the rooster shatters the solace of dawn. It was luck that granted me the transition from swing shift to mornings at the Paper Mill whe…

9 min · Fiction · Suspense

I pass the Florida-Georgia border, the midway point of my eight hour journey. The unmistakable landmark renowned for its marshes, historical plantation homes, a…

5 min · Non-Fiction · Literary

The trouble of being an assistant property manager, between a myriad of other caveats, is responding to late night emergency calls without salary pay while the…

11 min · Non-Fiction · Literary

A Play

CHARACTERS TIM: Middle aged male, maybe late forties, average weight and height, white, default face with generic features. Prefers exclusively dark roast coffe…

18 min · Playwriting · Satire

I never thought I’d be here, And yet, here I am. An outside human, The porch dweller of the land. I sit and I stare, And I ponder for hours. I wonder what life…

1 min · Poetry · Narrative

I’d just like to walk with you there, To sit in the grass and breathe in the air. To have a laugh, To share an experience, To appreciate the beauty in things un…

1 min · Poetry · Romance

Jacey sat in the corner booth of the diner with her fingers interlaced, trying to hide her shaking hands. She picked at the skin around her left thumb until the…

4 min · Fiction · Fantasy

I joined the intergalactic space force in the name of discovery. While many alienkind, especially that of my own people, find themselves infected with a desire,…

4 min · Fiction · Sci-Fi

Tommy was brought into this world in the back seat of his mother’s 1991 green ford station wagon. Rushing towards the only town hospital for miles, his father e…

6 min · Fiction · Magical Realism