Along with our slate of general submissions, we will be publishing four special presentations this year, like we did last year. Below is a logline for each, with the submission deadline and publication date. As we roll out the formal announcements for each, this page will be updated. ...LOVE -- "It’s easy to say all … Continue reading ANNOUNCING: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS OF Y3AR
“I THINK I NEED A NEW HOST”
-- Gabrielle Griot is a Massachusetts-born writer living on the west coast of Florida. Her work can be found in several literary magazines and online at gabriellegriot.com.
EVEN PARANOIDS HAVE ENEMIES
“Tell me what’s been going on.” I said. “Who do you tell?” He said. “I don’t tell anyone. If you are in danger of hurting yourself or someone else I may have to alert authorities. If you are in danger of only hurting yourself there are options outside of going to a higher level of … Continue reading EVEN PARANOIDS HAVE ENEMIES
ST. THOMAS MEMORY CARE FACILITY
originally published by BRUISER Mag The bridge of Walter's nose is terminally scarred and bleeding from where his glasses have cut him after walking into his door each morning. Every day he energetically awakens as if he had not been confined to the St. Thomas Memory Care facility. He stands naked from his bed and … Continue reading ST. THOMAS MEMORY CARE FACILITY
“ARBOR DAY, OR SUBURBAN ABECEDARIAN”
Arbor Day again in Michigan. Dusk’s lightbathed in mosquitoes & gnats & the shadow of a sunburn.Children reject the buckets in the sandbox,desperate for sleep that their parents are not yet ready to alloweven for the heaviest eyes. The parents need to talk, toflirt, to slide up to their friends’ spouses & suggest a newGilead. … Continue reading “ARBOR DAY, OR SUBURBAN ABECEDARIAN”
BILLY WALKS ON TWO LEGS NOW
The boy walked across dust and dirt to reach the livestock pen. Feeding the animals was always a welcome treat after the sleepy, slow predawn hours spent watering crops and fetching eggs from peck-happy chickens. It was the favorite of his morning and felt the least like work, so he saved it for last the … Continue reading BILLY WALKS ON TWO LEGS NOW
ZONES OF TOTAL PERMISSION
We learned the men had been burned to death while planning Christmas vacation. It was 2013, I was living in Madagascar, and my friends and I were sitting around discussing what part of the island to travel to for the holiday. This lynching, shocking and unusual in Madagascar, was relevant because the men had spent … Continue reading ZONES OF TOTAL PERMISSION
“SLEEP PARALYSIS OR IN THE ARCANE SOUTHERN IDIOM, ON BEING RIDDEN BY THE WITCH”
I have subpar facial recognition skills. The face of my college girlfriendmight as well have been the face of a squirrel with an acorn in her mouth.I have excellent hand recognition skills. I remember the formof her hands and the precise length and radius of each of her hand’s fingers. I look at surface, at … Continue reading “SLEEP PARALYSIS OR IN THE ARCANE SOUTHERN IDIOM, ON BEING RIDDEN BY THE WITCH”
DEAD GODS AND FALLEN KINGS
Neptune is the great god of the sea, overlord to all that is marine. Domineer of blue water, white surf, gray foam, and cold, black, fathomless depths, he commands the vast ocean network of a planet that is 70 percent his domain. From the inconspicuous tide pool barnacle that studs the salt-slick rocks, each wary … Continue reading DEAD GODS AND FALLEN KINGS
“SINECURE” – “LUBBOCK”
Sinecure Outflows are exceeding the inflowsthe ledger is entirely off I leftwork with an infected tooth the light fixtures are separating from the ceilingdark as the shadow across the great ledgerwe have been found to be insolvent so it feels like ethics don't really existmorality is a luxury the limestone hillsroll off toward the suspension … Continue reading “SINECURE” – “LUBBOCK”
APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL 