Fiction: The Shokunin by Michael Somes
“The Shokunin does not speak of his past.”
Creative Nonfiction: The Last Time I Cried Was In 2015 by Krys Malcolm Belc
I look at him crying and I feel deeply worried. About his future. About anyone’s.
Flash Fiction: We Are Approaching The Next Station by Claire Gleeson
And the painful inadequacy of this hangs in the car, the pretense that this briefest of visits home will provide some solution, some respite for one or other of them.
Small Gratitudes
A weekly, non-exhaustive list (curated by Steven Genise) of the experiences that make us human. I’ve discovered a new pleasure, now, in the initial weeks of this new year, […]
Poetry: The Varying Length of Moments by Zebulon Huset
In the agonizing space/between question and answer
Creative Nonfiction: Punchline by Tara Stillions Whitehead
I’ll never stop missing what has been taken from me.
Flash Fiction: The Problems Peddler by Candice May
But we aren’t that gullible. We can tell a fake.
About Your Writing: Be Bold by Steve Adams
This is another great thing about being a writer. The form gives you a safe space to work out whatever “is within you.”
Enoch Pratt Free Library 2021 Poetry Contest
Free poetry contest for Maryland residents age 18 and older sponsored by Enoch Pratt Free Library and Little Patuxent Review.
Poetry: Zofi (For My Grandmother) by Margaret D. Stetz
Boarding the ship a girl, leaving raw and stained, a woman,
