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July, 2020
local_library Poetry
The Poet’s Stone: Henry Vaughan
by Susie Gharib
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
Hummingbird
by Hayley Bowen
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
The Cyclist
by Carol Alexander
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
Unmoored
by David B Prather
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
build Craft
The Magic List
by Flora Jardine
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
Writers love lists, and locked-down writers adore them. These days we have more time for them, and they fill moments when creative inspiration fades. Usually, we greedily grab creative writing time from paid work, grocery shopping, family obligations, and so on. Still, in stay-home COVID-19 …
pages Micro-Fiction
Parable of the Earth’s Crust
by Jimmy Kindree
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
The ocean reverberated swells and dips, then made skin to shelter in, like bread dough when it’s rising makes a crust, or like surface-ice that buckles from beneath. The skin thickened to a turtle’s shell run through with fissures, through which ocean frothed and cooled, …
The Tree of Knowledge
by Kirby Wright
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
I’m haunted by diabetes. Metformin twice daily. Finger pricks determine glucose levels after testing strips absorb the sticky drops. This disease is god’s punishment for gobbling fudge at Martha’s Vineyard. Sugared butter on the waterfront shriveled my kidneys and tainted my blood. I cringe whenever …
map Macro-Fiction
Cannibals
by Meg Cook
Issue No. 278 ~ July, 2020
Alma had been thinking about cannibals all Sunday afternoon. It started at lunch when she was eating the roast-beef sandwich that her aunt Nancy had made, and she began wondering what baby Ellie would taste like. Nancy had gone outside to rake up the dead …
