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Diana Rosen is a poet, essayist, and flash fiction writer with credits in RATTLE, the Altadena Poetry Review, Tiferet Journal, and other journals and anthologies online and in print. "Love & Irony" has been accepted by Red Bird Chapbooks, and forthcoming work will appear in "Far Villages" from Black Lawrence Press and "Lottery Blues." Her poem, "Lucky Me," was nominated by Poetic Diversity for a Best of the Net Anthology from Sundress Publications.

Poetry

Micro-Fiction

Hollywood and Highland

Issue No. 270 ~ November, 2019

Sunny. It’s always sunny. Buskers sing, pitch their CDs. Vendors sell cut fruit, fragrant sausages and onions. John slumps in his wheel-chair, one foot on the sidewalk, the other shot off in Vietnam, then the leg amputated up to his knee. The subway empties. People …