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J. Wilkos
Jacek Wilkos Little Library little librarya bird nestsbetween the pages Jacek Wilkos is an engineer from Poland. He’s addicted to buying books, loves black coffee, dark ambient music and riding his bike. His stories and poems were published in numerous anthologies by Black Hare Press, Alien Buddha Press, Black Ink Fiction, Insignia Stories, CultureCult Press,…
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T. O’Connell
Thomas O’Connell How We Keep Our Places The public library posted a photograph to its Facebook page of a young woman sitting in a window seat wearing, what appears to be, an Easter dress. One foot slipped delicately behind her ankle, she holds a sandwich plate in her lap. The caption explained that the photograph…
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B. Westwood Diehl
Barbara Westwood Diehl Bees Being Bees Let us celebrate the bees, the fat bumblers, the drunk stumbling, window smacking, honey heralds, be-winged and bedazzling, gold-sashed. The blustering pomposity of the lot of them. Their bellies full of spring. Bees brimming with busy beeness. Lift a glass of catmint, a dinner plate of dahlias, a salad…
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P. Laufer
Paulette Laufer Thread of a Harmony What if you couldn’t singbut you sang, and in the very act of singing you find a rough noteand the note ekes into melody,strand of melody cobbles itself into song,not a song that would be sung but one that could be carried in the threadof a pocket, sewn into…
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AJ Bartholomew, Music
AJ Bartholomew Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey Page 2: Music AJ Bartholomew is a writer, poet, and artist from Northern Virginia. After a brief exile to New Jersey, AJ returned home and joined an art club after the pandemic shutdown concluded. AJ hopes to one day publish a book of horror limericks. Back to Issue
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AJ Bartholomew, Words
AJ Bartholomew Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey Page 21: Words AJ Bartholomew is a writer, poet, and artist from Northern Virginia. After a brief exile to New Jersey, AJ returned home and joined an art club after the pandemic shutdown concluded. AJ hopes to one day publish a book of horror limericks. Back to Issue
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K. Fitzgerald
Katie Fitzgerald Book Club Night Hazel swayed the porch swing with her Keds, watching women emerge from the vehicles lining the opposite side of the street. They carried copies of a chunky book. Hazel could never read the titles at this distance, even with thick glasses, but every month she wondered what they were reading.…
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J. McIntire
Jonie McIntire On Running for President of the Non-Profit Board The thunder of an avalanchestarts with quiet sounds like “sure” and”of course I can.” Jonie McIntire is the first female Poet Laureate of Lucas County, Ohio. Her most recent chapbook, Semidomesticated (re-released by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2022) won Red Flag Poetry’s 2020 chapbook contest. Her prior…
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P. Davis-Muffett
Patricia Davis-Muffett Impending The rain won’t stop. Or rather,first rain, then sleet, then snow,then back to rain with temps careening from eight to eighty, then back to forties. Taking the dogs out this morning, I sunk my foot deep in mud and thoughtof Noah’s wife. When did she first whisper,Maybe he’s on to something.You tell…
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K. Paulsen
Kathryn Paulsen A poem says . . . Pay attention: This wordrhymes or not This linestops or notruns over into another or notfor a reasonThe reason is yoursto hunt downUnscrambleReapKeep Kathryn Paulsen’s poetry and prose have appeared in publications from Canada to Ireland to Australia. She also writes novels, stage plays, and screenplays. “A poem…