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Smallwood Offers Style and Intriguing Content

Carol Smallwood offers a captivating preface to this 2018 collection, her tenth published since 2014. “It’s the whispered that has the most impact,” she declares.

Doctor

DR. NO RKVRY?

Writer works to get under skin, doc rushes through gore he bathes within… Shrieking from someone else’s…

Girl in White

“In Her Garden” and “Fresh News”

Big mama said she’s plum gone there’s no more chunky, copper moon walking over her head she reserves the right to wear white…

Corolla

The Years

I am sitting on an exercise bike, slowly moving my feet, circling, circling, pushing just enough to barely move the pedals. It is exhausting.

Waves

Guide Him Through

Between lush manicured lawns and dense sheared hedges I walk slowly up the curved path to the wall near the relief sculpture tall as a juniper tree…

the Louvre

Madonnas

“Teacher. Nurse. Secretary. Three acceptable careers for a young woman when my mother was a girl. I became a high-powered corporate lawyer.”

Pushcart Prize Nominations - Dreamers Creative Writing

2018 Pushcart Prize Nominations

2019 Dreamers Pushcart Prize Nominations …we’re pleased to announce our 2019 Pushcart Prize nominations! Check them out.

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Through, Not Around

Anyone going through infertility treatments, or who has experienced pregnancy loss, will tell you that it is a lonely experience, often filled with…

Pills

Things I’ve Learned on the Road

I remember the fire trucks with all the lights flashing and the noise and the woman screaming down the street. I was six, the teachers whispered nervously…