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24 Hour Submission Window OPEN NOW! All genres, < 1,000 words This round, we’re not asking you to write toward a particular theme. We want to see what you’ve written lately. What problems, thoughts, or questions are swirling around your mind and coming out through your fingertips? Due to limitations in reading time, we’re accepting submissions for 24 hours, or until we hit our submission…
after A Field in England I’ve been here before. A walking ghost before purposeappeared. Eyes rolling, billowing black sleeves, a manleads a group through a field. His smile shrieks.The others hold the corded rope tied around his torso.His arms look severed. They float. He points the way.I see my reflection in his black robe. The days I babbledand thought I was called come to mind….
Jan Grue suffers from a muscular disorder that prevents muscle growth, causing him to spend most of his time in a wheelchair. In his memoir, he discusses what it is like to live with that disability, but, more importantly and as with all memoirs, he writes about what it is like to learn to be himself. The appeal of all memoirs, as with all literature,…
Most of us hand off traumaslike traditions, the bloody, mud-crusted baton a father bats his son withbefore the boy takes it running off into the dark future. The pain of being humanrains down fire unto the third, the fourth generation. But Dad—something happened with you. Somehow your body tented me, a fortwhose roof caught all the scalding rain and the ice of your father, the…
Stories We Were Told for Catherine Corless The young warrior Fionn didn’t mean to steal knowledge. He just burst the blisteron the scale of a mythical salmon roasting over the fire. He sucked his thumband knowledge entered him. Other Warriors: Setanta, Brian Boru, Sarsfield, Red Hugh, Hugh Dubh, Wolfe Tone,Robert Emmet, Daniel O’ Connell, Parnell, Father Murphy, Padraig Pearse;Michael Collins, DeValera. Cowboys shooting at ceilings…