Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026
Ann Christine Tabaka

Ann Christine Tabaka

Ann Christine Tabaka lives in Delaware. She is a published poet and artist, and loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and two cats.

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About Ann Christine Tabaka

Ann Christine Tabaka lives in Delaware. She is a published poet and artist, and loves gardening and cooking. Chris lives with her husband and two cats.

Her most recent credits are The Paragon Journal, The Literary Hatchet, The Metaworker, Raven Cage Ezine, RavensPerch, Anapest Journal, Mused, Apricity Magazine, Longshot Island, Indiana Voice Journal, Halcyon Days Magazine, The Society of Classical Poets, and BSU's Celestial Musings Anthology.

*(a complete list of publications is available upon request)

Books by Ann Christine Tabaka

Short

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  • Altered Reality

    What is reality? Is it the same for everyone?

Poem

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  • Poisoned Pleasures

    "...of a time I still try hard to forget..."

  • Writing My Life Away

    "...Your words piercing my heart again..."

  • Me, Myself, and Solitaire

    "...I catch myself cheating..."

  • Vacant House

    "...The door was ajar..."

  • Peas Porridge Hot...

    "...my kettle of wasted dreams ready for the compost pile..."

  • Nonsense Poem

    "...The sequins are still blue..."

  • Unreality

    "...Store window displays staring back with vacant eyes..."

  • The Old Man

    "...Embers fading, ashes flying, eyes like a smoke filled room..."

  • The Insanity of It All

    "...Lost loves and ugly little secrets..."

  • The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

    "...He knows it is his time..."

  • Negative Space

    "...Counting minutes, hours turn to days..."

  • No Turning Back

    "...Forlorn and forgotten, forsaken and lost..."

  • Ransomed Dream

    "...within echoes of a life I do not recall..."

  • Living in Despair

    "...Heart to mind to lips, gone from the universe..."

  • All Is Lost

    "...The truth has no meaning among the unholy hordes..."

  • My Words

    "...I am raw and crude at the core..."

  • Uprooted

    "...Time is now the enemy, bulldozing hope into the ground...

  • The Human Lot

    "...As tortured souls we quibble and dispute..."

  • His Daughter

    "...There were not enough tears to make things work..."

  • This Game Called Life

    "...Chasing aspirations in a never ending circle..."

  • A Toast to Death

    "...Songs echo through shadows of once bright lives..."

  • Anxiety Attack

    "...I grieve my existence, swimming in emotions..."

  • Abandonment

    "...An endurance of sorrow and regret..."

  • A Year Gone Wrong

    "...all we want is a little light, a little breath..."

  • Acceptance Cries Out for More

    "...pieces of a time once spent..."

  • Broken Chains

    "...I cannot dispatch you to a fettered future..."

  • Road to Oblivion

    "...A schism grows wider with each word spoken..."

  • On My Way to Freedom / I Met Life

    "...Open roads call to me..."

  • In the Beginning

    "...emotions trailed behind, following a sorrowful path..."

  • Forever Gone

    "...A revelation, wanting to be immortalized in words..."