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Tag: Issue1

A Letter from Our Editor

by dawn leasPosted onJune, 2018March, 2019

            The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is rooted in community, and the close collaboration and grassroots efforts put forth to…

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YOU AND I IN THE REDRAWING

By Carl Boon

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

They will have unstitched the flowers from your collar, edited my name toward a sad misspelling. We won’t recognize each other nor the rooms in…

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Missed Connections, a short story

By Emmy Thomas

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

            The gate was crowded when she arrived, the obligatory one hour prior to departure. Or was it one hour prior to boarding? She wasn’t sure.…

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Santa Fe

By Lisa Mase

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

Some, in their hula hoop circus gear and spandex pirate stripes, bump to late-night techno spinning at Rouge Cat’s Euro trash lounge or grind to…

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After Midnight

By Morrow Dowdle

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

Our mothers proclaimed that nothing good ever happens after midnight, as if having us in bed by the time the two clock hands clasped at…

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Coyote Moon

By Beth Konkoski

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

            A woman I once worked with came to visit when I moved back east and stole my car after my husband and I went to bed.…

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Spring Cleaning

By Meela Smith

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

I’m cleaning out my cupboards and polishing my vocal chords. I’ve taken the carpets out from under my feet, shaking them free of stray stones…

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What Moss Says

By Penelope Scambly Schott

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

There’s enough moss to go around is what I say to myself. When I lived on the East coast moss said only North, but here…

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My Tree

By Kris Harrington

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

            I tell two fictions about the tree tattooed on my left shoulder. The first story is that it is a tribute to my father, “roots…

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The Crow

By Blaise Allen

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

The half-dead baby crow rescued and released came back to me in a dream. He was six feet tall, sleek feathered, shining blue. He wanted…

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Pushed Into Being

Jessica Standifird

After Ocean Vuong’s “Headfirst”

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

When you were                        pulled from the surgical slit in my stomach,    each of my sixteen years cried                                                       out. Cradled by my arms and     the eyes…

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Be Safe

By Laura Cherry

…for Molly Fisk

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

It’s a renegade blessing, a luckless charm, an impossible command, a petition with one signature, a spangled net of wishes thrown over the precious other,…

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I Know It’s True

By John Woods

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

I know it’s true because it happened to me as I stood alone in the mourning moonlight, after they planted my love in the ground…

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Sleeping with Anxiety

By Bre Lillie

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

Step One: Close your eyes. When it climbs on your face like a spider monkey / and tries to pry your eyelids open remember this…

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The Portal

By Maria Brandt

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

            I never believe what anyone tells me, unless it’s the truth. And I know when it’s the truth because I feel it, like I feel…

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Dust Bowl

By Jennifer Neely

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

It is not disappearing, so much as being lifted up and whisked away. The wind carries the ground off, particle by particle, mote by mote.…

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Be on the Lookout

By Rich Boucher

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

I’ve had the news on since 9. The television screen has been yapping, of course, nonstop screeching about the horrible news. One more murder, another…

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Flags and Ashes

By Jessica Standifird

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

            I’m here to pick up Dad. He is on a shelf behind the funeral director’s desk, surrounded by awards the funeral home has won. Brass…

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Second Chance?

By Debbie Theiss

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018June, 2018

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For Villisca

By Sara Anderson

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

In Memoriam: Josiah, Sarah, Herman, Katherine, Boyd & Paul Moore, and Lena and Ina May Stillinger, killed June 10, 1912 in Villisca, Iowa. They don’t go…

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forever young

By Joshua Allen

by dawn leasPosted onMay, 2018May, 2018

Tonight, in the loamy darkness, we grow into shapes resembling ourselves. The forest breathes through us — heady infusions of oxygen. Our combined age is…

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