Contagion

The aliens are bacteria, viruses and fungi. They like to live in the most trendy spot in the right now: the bowels.

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Alice ‘n’ Lobsterland

It glares down at me with a smug crustacean grin, and at once I have no question this is a lobster demon.

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Fireside Writing Retreat

Dreamers Creative Writing hosts the Fireside Writing Retreat every June & October at the Dreamers Writing Farm in Hepworth, Ontario, Canada.

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Finding the Narrator

So many questions. Who was she, that she would bury a book? Would it be wrong to dig it up and read it?

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Kimberly Foulger Poetry Collection

I watch the door, I watch the window. And flinch at every noise. Dream every nightmare.

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Storms Above

The biting rainwater dripping down my back melds with something deeper, some knowing. The crow is still here.

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Strife

His scissors are soaking in soapy water. She turns and almost stabs him in the belly. He jumps back.

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Nan Williamson Poetry Collection

Pandemic poverty more floods and fires and here and there a Machiavelli who can smile and smile and be a villain.

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Finding Joy

In the attic stands a cardboard mansion. I can relate to this wallpaper, slowly coming unglued inside this house.

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What is a Haiku? Tiny Poem, Big Meaning…

A haiku is a very brief Japanese poem of 17 total syllables in three lines. Line one is 5 syllables, line two is 7 syllables, and line three is 5 syllables.

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Opera

She gave her life to art while her lover was tortured in the wing. My father would stare at the long avenues ahead.

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Haiku Contest: Submit by May 31 for your chance to win!

Submit up to 3 haiku for your chance to win! The winner will receive $120, 2 copies of our magazine, and 2 keychains on which the poem will be printed.

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My Mother’s Eyes

She held on, the nurses marveling at her tenacious strength. They declared that she was not letting go quite yet.

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Fear of Looking Forward

Anticipation is vulnerability. The looking-forward to small pleasures was getting him through these dark days of lockdown.

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0200 December 1st

where the humanity around me dissolves into bodies and the humanity within me dissolves into mind.

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Book Review: Writing for the Legal Cannabis Industry

Anne-Marie includes personal and professional efficacy, thoughtful research and personal goal development.

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The Therapist Blues

Will my life be analyzed through a feminist lens? It sure as hell would be boring if you approached it biographically.

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Captured

Marrying the kindest man you'd ever met still felt like a caging, only this time it was you who turned the key.

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