by BlogEditor | Feb 3, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
8 Healthy Ways to Lose Weight After A C-Section Remember: You’re Still Healing by Summer A.H. Christiansen FollowFollowFollow 1. First and Foremost Be Patient Be patient with your body. Take time to understand what it has gone through and know that your body will...
by BlogEditor | Jan 31, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Friending My Brother by Michelle Goering FollowFollowFollow I have a testy relationship with Facebook. I ignore it for weeks, then come back for the dopamine hits when friends read what I’ve written, and I connect with others’ experiences. But I like to complain that...
by BlogEditor | Jan 26, 2023 | Book Reviews
Poor Your Soul by Mira Ptacin FollowFollowFollow Poor Your Soulby Mira Ptacin SoHo Press Inc. (2016)$17.00 (paperback)978-1-61695-766-7 Book review by Rebecca Beardsall Three books sit on my nightstand as I struggle to get enveloped in a book during the long, dark...
by BlogEditor | Jan 24, 2023 | Book Reviews
Shutter by Ramona Emerson FollowFollowFollow Shutterby Ramona Emerson Soho Crime 2022$25.951641293330 Book review by Colleen Lutz Clemens Ramona Emerson’s debut novel Shutter took me by surprise. I am not usually a mystery or crime genre fan, but her interview with...
by BlogEditor | Jan 20, 2023 | Fiction
Wildflowers by Kate Snow FollowFollowFollow My body holds the history of so many Mississippi summers that a bead of sweat rolls down my back in anticipation. I leave the relative cool of the house and step out into a predatory heat that envelopes the landscape in...
by BlogEditor | Jan 17, 2023 | Fiction
If I Die Before I See You by Domnica Radulescu FollowFollowFollow We saw each other again during a summer storm in the Shenandoah Valley, in the Walmart parking lot. He was returning from a trip to Russia, and I had just settled amidst those blue foggy mountains,...
by BlogEditor | Jan 12, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
I Think I’m Better Looking by Joylyn Chai FollowFollowFollow …than I actually am. I dared to have an open discussion about this for the first time a few weeks ago. The style of my appearance has been a preoccupation of mine for a lifetime, however it’s not something...
by BlogEditor | Jan 9, 2023 | Poetry
[Robert]: A Lipogram Apology by Monica Prince FollowFollowFollow [Robert]: A Lipogram Apology Note: A lipogram is a type of Oulipian constraint where each stanza represents each letter in a word that is missing;the stanza must use every other letter of the alphabet...
by BlogEditor | Jan 4, 2023 | Poetry
After Dark, by Ellie Altman FollowFollowFollow After Dark Relishing permission to sleep,I wrestle the day to surrender the pulled curtains, narrow the second-floor window view into a nearsighted blurwhere Queen Street meets Riverside Terrace— a three-way,...
by BlogEditor | Dec 21, 2022 | Poetry
SWIM by Jonny Ransbottom FollowFollowFollow SWIM I found my femininity with him inside of meI was unfamiliar with the skin beneath the tuft of thick hair, that spiral flowerAnd the triangle it forms between my legs I let it grow long like a jungleLeaves cowering and...
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