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...
by BlogEditor | Dec 19, 2022 | Poetry
The Plan by Irene Watson FollowFollowFollow The Plan Capture shade of sundials in curled hands. Shutter hours passing with a shield of metal marker. Ponder elegance of stone numeralsin their plainspoken steadiness, their correctness. (If) I can move the trapped...
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