You may be thinking about submitting a piece of writing to this magazine. You may be wondering what the guidelines for submission are. The main one is: let’s talk. Let me know you want to submit a piece. Show it to me. If it’s too long we’ll publish it in installments. If it’s a bit…
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Inheriting Dust
I was always told you were a hermit living out your days on a decrepit shanty boat. An old relic who shut his self away from the world. I reckon your hands were calloused with the repetition of mending crawdaddy traps, honing fish knives, and polishing a rusting gun barrel. Inheriting your old trunk, I…
Kayla Marie
I remember you thinking about what to do when we’re gone. There are so many options now, “Bury me gently in the cold dark earth” “Bury me in satin… Lay me down in a bed of roses… Send me away with the words of a love song… … oh oh” I could be a tree!…
A Circus of Turtles & Naked Energies (Like the Wind #5)
Start from the First “Delivery” From Delivery 3: She looked at the ducks and laughed. They are just like little lost people wandering around importantly and have no idea about anything other than their own little pond. Finally the days dragged by. On Saturday she waited at the door of the Samai Thai Restaurant and…
Streetlights
Weary from my travels, Iturned the corner into their laneComing home, back to themEverything a little different, but still just the same. The selfsame faces beaming round the tableA meal and some deliberationThe warmth washed around me in wavesEven in that dry summer, offering salvation. My eyes were as bright as the yellow lightsAnd I…
Tears (The Pearl Collector 3)
“Take care. Goodbye.”The airline was cancelled. I was thinking as if the typhoon knew what I was hoping for: to delay his departure, as late as possible. I hate seeing people off because I hate goodbye. But now I always insist on seeing people off, because I have missed it once, and I don’t want…
The Pearl Collector #2: Follow Me!
He comes to visit me in Hong Kong, bringing with him two huge traveling bags. They are allfor me: winter clothes, books, and chocolates and even salted hams. I take him to Stanley. He takes pictures of me.He says he is tired and goes to bed early Follow Me! When dad got his driving license…
‘Like the Wind’: Brain Frog and Ancestors
“I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers…
Pride is for… ?
I began June not with celebration, but with tears. “Happy” Pride, right? Who the fuck thought I would be watching a TV show with a character who was wearing overalls and I would absolutely breakdown in tears? And now, I’m alternating between writing and ugly crying. And the makeup I put on earlier today is a mess…
The Pearl Collector, Part 1: Tomorrow’s Soup
“What would you like to have for tomorrow’s soup?” Grandma would never get by a dinner without a pot of delicate soup. “Soup is the highlight of a meal. There is no decent dinner without soup!” She would spend a whole day preparing a soup that could live up to the title of “family food.”…
The Psyche that Poems Built
Whan that aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of march hath perced to the roote,And bathed every veyne in swich licourOf which vertu engendred is the flour; –Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales John hadGreat BigWaterproofBoots on;John had aGreat BigWaterproofHat;John had aGreat BigWaterproofMackintosh — –“Happiness” by A. A. Milne The poems of A A Milne have…