NEW Flash – Caleb Tankersly: We Have a City

We’re super-tingly to share one of our #Pushcart2016 nominees this week, Caleb Tankersley’s “We Have a City”:

Caleb Tankersley - We Have a City[sample]

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This flash originally appeared in SC 4.3, available for download or in print in our humble shop. Be sweet to us and subscribe? Weld Read on!

Elizabeth Crowell: two poems

If only we could bake our way out of all strife, readers! Today we share two poems by Elizabeth Crowell we hope will strike your heart:

Elizabeth Crowell - two poems [sample]

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These poems originally appeared in SC 4.2. Get your copies & downloads from our sweet Etsy store; and if you’re still hungry, a subscription is like cookies (maybe). Read on!

NEW Poem – Aran Donovan: we come from animalcules

It is unique, readers, but what is this quality? Perhaps a concept we can’t do without? Today we’re happy to share from the latest issue Aran Donovan‘s unmistakeable lyric, “we come from animalcules“:

Aran Donovan - we come from animalcules[sample]

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Jay Hansford C. Vest: Sixteen Bones and a Warrior

What we remember is what we remember, and what we believe others remember matters just as much. We’re proud today to share, from the latest issue, Jay Hansford C. Vest‘s transgenre essay “Sixteen Bones and a Warrior“:

Jay Hansford C. Vest - Sixteen Bones and a Warrior [sample]

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This creative nonfiction piece originally appeared in SC 4.3. Support the author and the arts — subscribe! purchase a copy of the issue! or download! Submitters can click here. And as always, read on.

Jenna Rindo: Once in a Hospital in Madison

That which we look away from routinely, having forgotten its horror. That which is nauseatingly inevitable. Reader, we want to look away and look and look with you. We’re honored to share this poem by Jenna Rindo, “Once in a Hospital in Madison“:

Jenna Rindo - Once in a Hospital in Madison [sample]

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