by BlogEditor | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured Post, Fiction
PETIT BATTEMENT by Mandy Lange FollowFollowFollow Molly’s pas de chat is born of force, timing, and intensity. A blink of respite at the pinnacle of the leap, when chaos slips into calm. A gentle return to plywood. She rotates her heel, chafing against her too-small...
by BlogEditor | Feb 11, 2025 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post
The Interloper by Kandi Maxwell FollowFollowFollow Photo by MD Duran via Unsplash “You should meet, Jonnie,” my friend, Glenda says. “You two have so much in common.” We both hike, camp, and love animals. He has horses, I have wolf dogs. He lives in a cabin he built...
by BlogEditor | Nov 30, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry
Emily Patterson is a curriculum designer, poet, and mother. She holds a B.A. in English from Ohio...
by BlogEditor | Aug 4, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room, Uncategorized
I. Beautiful day for war, fields of yellowing leaves speckled with black spots buffering centuries of secrets stuck in the soil whispering to any root that’ll listen to its’ stories. Put down your weapons, pick up your ploughs. II. The earth has never faltered under...
by BlogEditor | Aug 2, 2021 | Creative Nonfiction, Featured Post, The Keeping Room
My birthday twin died today. I knew almost nothing about him, except that he and I were born on the exact same date. We were the same age until around 11am this morning when I began to grow steadily older than him. Every morning at the hospital where I work as a...
by BlogEditor | Jul 6, 2021 | Featured Post, Poetry, The Keeping Room
Hymn Thirsty for aPleistoncene morning, I’m a graying creaturetrotting in & out of shadows. I rest deep in the dark belly of my backyard ravine. ...