Juliana Norwood’s poem Wait appeared here in December 2012. Progression-Free Survival By Juliana Norwood you spin the same storieschanging the details, red hair,blue eyes, street corners, as if those alterationscould mask thetruthwhich is:you do not liveon my skinyou are nota scar nora smilemy blood doesnot rise toyour call sing yoursame songfor a new nameas loudas youlike there area thousandways of stalkingand […]
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The Return
Terribly bored on hot summer Sunday in 1996, Jeffrey L Williams played (and lost) a video game, unsuccessfully rearranged his bedroom, and stumbled upon an episode of Golden Girls in which Blanche decides to become “a great Southern writer.” By the end of that 2-part episode, he was writing what would become his first short […]
Her Perfume
Born in Oregon, Moriah LaChapell earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Western Oregon University. She also studied viticulture at Washington State University. She currently works in horticulture. She lives in a little town in Oregon with her daughter and husband. Her work has been published online at Misfits’ Miscellany andThe Camel Saloon and in print by Silver Birch Press. […]
This Shade of Blue
With a career that spans travel, technology, advertising, and social media, Melissa Hassard can’t remember a time when she wasn’t writing. A long-time resident of North Carolina, she founded Women Writers of the Triad, a support and educational group for local women writers, and 20 Lines a Day, an online writing and photography project that […]
Drawn Back by Oranges
Kalima Hamilton wrote this beautiful poem. She is the author of Outside the Lava Fields (Aldrich Press 2012). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming at Prairie Schooner, Hawai’i Pacific Review, and Shenandoah. Drawn Back by Oranges By Kalima Hamilton Late March and the faithful swallows returnto San Juan Capistrano; in ones and twos they […]
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