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Issue 168

Hole Digger

Some part of me found it a little kinky to play house, to take his name, to be tamed in these ways. Finally a man strong enough to handle me! Every last bit of it was play, performance, costume, and I thought that meant it had no consequences. Read more.

Liz Harmer in
Issue 168

Prepper

Arguments with Joe are circular and tedious. Every word out of his mouth, it seems, is a waste of time. And she needs to check on her garden. She needs to get back to the bunker. What Joe doesn’t know is that she prefers being underground. The air is musty and cool like the inside of a wine cellar. Last winter, she didn’t emerge for weeks because of the latest strain of flu, which the news called “highly contagious,” and finished twelve books and nine jigsaw puzzles. Read more.

Megan Callahan in
Issue 168

Kiss Me Again Like The Second Time

Astonished that all these years later,
having never known before,
that you also think of our second kiss
with the fondness of a first
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Susan J. Atkinson in

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The Writer’s Corner

November 28, 2023

Finding the Form with Susan J. Atkinson

Kiss Me Again Like The Second Time was one of those rare gems of a poem that start with a tiny spark that instantly ignites and the next thing you know the spark has exploded into a full blown fire or, in this case, a poem. I’d been reading a New York Bestseller Rom-Com, which […]

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November 21, 2023

Finding the Form with Bobbie Jean Huff

I wrote what would become my short story “Generations” many years ago. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in my writing then, but I knew enough to realize that it wasn’t any good. A story about a garden party? Who cares! When I first started writing, I focused on poetry. I’d never considered writing […]

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November 6, 2023

Finding the Form with Jill Solnicki

In her Finding the Form online exclusive blog post, Jill Solnicki talks about her process, and reveals drafts of her poem “Blue Rooms”.  Finding the form of a poem is both a conscious process, and a mysterious one. Why mysterious? Because, for me, a poem seems to arrive from above, out of air, or from […]

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