Delilah Reincarnated as Melania Trump Confides You don’t know that after the barber cuts, I soft blow the loose hairs from the furrow in his collar. Listen closely, trying to…

by Phyllis Brotherton & Armen Bacon   Excerpted from “The Words Between Us, A Pandemic Abecedarius,” a collaborative writing project   Unwelcome Today, it is unclear to me precisely how…

Image Credit: OCD UK      You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering. ~Ernest Hemingway   This year, my obsessive compulsive disorder diagnosis turned old enough…

Beshrew by Danielle Pafunda Dusie Books, April 2019 60 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   Whether one values poetic complexity on the level of single words and tropes, emotional range,…

I’ve been living in exile for forty-two years now, about half of them away from home. If that’s as good a line as I think, it’s because, as Lao Tzu…

Margo Orlando Littell is the author of the novels The Distance from Four Points and Each Vagabond by Name, which won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize and…

Image Credit: Wendy Small   We must have felt what it is to die, so we can appreciate what it means to live. Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo…

* * * “Bird and a mammal!” Ellie demanded. “Not now.” “Name them!” Chief was still setting up his slideshow. “Penguin and a tiger.” Ellie nodded and started drawing. Chief…

The Striped Bananas embark upon a playful, late 60s psychedelic spirit with the surprisingly poppy “Pictures I Hear”. Instrumentally vibrant their ear for melody and rhythm proves to be profound.…

Welcome to the June, July, and August 2020 edition of Where to Submit. We’re happy to be featuring Colorful Curves by Jordana Hanono, a high school sophomore (!) from New…

Life of the Party is out now from CLASH Books. Andrew Byrds: Milan is presented as a city of opposites in your book, and these contradictions are explored a lot.…

Image Credit: “Figure Toys Hugging” by Gaelle Marcel (@gaellemarcel) from Unsplash   Beside my bed in a grey storage cube, among old filmstrips and bills, sits a large pink vibrator…

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