by BlogEditor | Jul 27, 2023 | News & Events
Dare to Be chapbook contest winner! FollowFollowFollow We are thrilled the announce the winner of our 2023 Dare to be Chapbook Contest, Emily Kerlin, for her manuscript, Twenty-One Farewells! From our Judge, Emily Patterson, “Twenty-One Farewells is a meditation on...
by BlogEditor | Jul 11, 2023 | Fiction
A TALL GLASS OF LEMONADE ON A HOT DAY By Cindy Knoebel FollowFollowFollow The burly sheriff, pressed uniform the color of gravy, knocks on the frame of the tattered screen door. “Mrs. Ordwell?” Cups a hand around his eyes, squints into the interior gloom. A basket of...
by BlogEditor | Jul 6, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
DOGGED by Marty Kingsbury FollowFollowFollow In my 71 years of life, I’ve known lots of pain: scrapes and stitches and broken bones. Pinched sciatica. Bone spurs. Headaches that drum my skull. But this one was different. This one was hard to figure out. It started on...
by BlogEditor | Jun 26, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Jesus Is Delicious by Monica J. Casper FollowFollowFollow I was small when my mom and my sister, and I left a drafty old house in coal country for Chicago. We had tickets to Bozo’s Circus, which we’d only ever seen on TV. My dad had let us make the six-hour journey...
by BlogEditor | Jun 21, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Lipstick by Norma Schafer FollowFollowFollow The tube is gold and metallic blue, scratched, tarnished, and well-worn. The removeable gold top has ridges with the raised edges now silvery, signs of its aging. I can still faintly read Estee Lauder stamped on the...
