excerpt from WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY by Ruth Tang
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miCRo: “Branding Day” by Jane O. Wayne
Wayne reminds us that remembering always comes with the price of reliving the moment.
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Accepting Submissions to Our Summer Contest!
It’s officially summer, which means we’re accepting submissions to the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards!
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Writers’ Day Jobs: Jenn Scott
Fiction writer Jenn Scott shares her perspective on the craft of being a server in the restaurant industry: “I love juggling nine thousand things at once and smoothing over potential catastrophes.”
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miCRo: “[those ‘mexicans for golovkin’ shirts]” by JD Debris
The speaker of this poem is both voiceover and musical soundtrack at once, singing us through their experience…
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Microreview and Interview: Matt Mitchell’s The Neon Hollywood Cowboy
Assistant Editor Taylor Byas interviews Matt Mitchell about his debut collection, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, in which Mitchell “spins us a record, songs of longing and love crooning from grainy speakers.”
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miCRo: “Checking” by Sarah Beth Childers
With a dying Granddad sleeping downstairs and a newborn Lydia sleeping upstairs, the speaker of this piece hovers in the purgatory between…
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Why We Like It: “Hotshot” by Jaclyn Dwyer
“Hotshot” closes with the realization that sometimes a fire gets too hot and high for anything else to stop it. These final lines can also serve as a metaphor for addiction—sometimes the fire of it can only be put out with more fire…
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“Hotshot” by Jaclyn Dwyer
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miCRo: “Ortolan” by Lauren Osborn
Lauren Osborn’s microfiction “Ortolan” drops us into the intersection of hunger and desire, the crossroad where they meet and become one.
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