Laura Poholek At The Close of Day, Between Folded Consciousness I wish to study the effect of gravity on your eyelids or the mathematical correlation between the phases of the moon and the yearning hieroglyphics of your lips. Laura Poholek lives in Florida and writes particularly well in Laundromats.
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C. R. Harper: “Bestseller”
C.R. Harper Bestseller What should surpass the workhorse dictionary, when all other books are within it? C.R. Harper has found a home in the Pacific Northwest, with short works upcoming in Scifaikuest and 7×20.
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Pratibha Kelapure: “Parallel Lives”
Pratibha Kelapure Parallel Lives Two parallel lane markings on the freeway lie ahead of him like an estranged couple trying to keep the family together and hold the straying children in line. Pratibha Kelapure is a real person who lives in an imaginary world.
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Dawn Corrigan: “Hide and Seek, 1978”
Dawn Corrigan Hide and Seek, 1978 We pulled the green smells into our bodies, ran farther and faster, winter-lengthened legs not awkward in motion, and we hunted one another in the prickly bushes, in yards laced with clotheslines until all together we found Joel and Tracy in the bushes, not minding the prickles, no longer […]
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Pamela Johnson Parker: “Haiku on Rediscovering My Wedding Rings”
Pamela Johnson Parker Haiku on Rediscovering My Wedding Rings I cover my hands With these diamonds; I cover My face with my hands Pamela Johnson Parker is a teacher who lives in western Kentucky and dreams every day of living by the sea.
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Pamela Johnson Parker: “Widow’s Mite: Word Problem with Subtrahend”
Pamela Johnson Parker Widow’s Mite: Word Problem with Subtrahend If the two become One flesh, then which one—and if One of the ones who Are one dies, then what Remains, how many are left, And how many leave? Pamela Johnson Parker is a teacher who lives in western Kentucky and dreams every day of living […]
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Pamela Johnson Parker: “Dendrochronology: A Footnote”
Pamela Johnson Parker Dendrochronology: A Footnote 1Defined, it’s a noun: That ring Where my wedding Ring was. Pamela Johnson Parker is a teacher who lives in western Kentucky and dreams every day of living by the sea.
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Brad Rose: “They Never Found My Father’s Body”
Brad Rose They Never Found My Father’s Body I recall the dust-gray ordinariness of my father’s face, and how, each day, in clean overalls, he left for the Upper Big Branch mine, but never once said goodbye. Brad Rose was born and raised in southern California, and lives in Boston. His chapbook of miniature fiction, […]
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