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“Elysium to Lethe Through Athabasca Valles”
“Lava, perfectly happy to flow like water smoothly / around obstructions”
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“[Aliens are here]”
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“Aliens are here”
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Shadow Award 2019 Short List
In the 2019 Shadow Award from The Molotov Cocktail, one of my entries landed me on the short list.
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“November in Portland”
“High school like autumn: / rain, mud, dark, / snow seems a day away.”
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“Distraction”
“I watch light flicker under the bathroom door. / I watch the clock. / I watch one foot with a sock on jealous of the other.”
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Submission Class Contribution: “Work Schedule” on the Submittable Blog
“COMMANDMENTS
1. Work on one project at a time until finished.
2. I’ll be done when I’m done: Don’t set or worry about deadlines; finish and move on to the next task.” -
“Foolishly Into the Ocean”
“Divert the river from the ocean!”
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“a haunting” & “Annular Eclipse”
“the lizard / in the bathroom / where I left it alone”
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“My Unbelievable Man”
“His shoulder next to my shoulder / is warm pressure communication”
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“The Center of Dirty”
“Rachel hung up on her mother while she was telling Rachel about her niece’s birthday party. The abrupt silence was packed with glass. Rachel stared at the dark screen of her phone until the greasy prints bothered her. She wiped the phone across her jeans and set it face down on the table. It rang. She brushed at crumbs.”
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“Nervous Bambi”
“He blinks and I’m not sure if he’s trying / to embarrass me or if he’s confused by me, too. / He has to be lying.”
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“Looking Ahead”
“I’ve seen the eclipse already. / I’ve seen how it begins: / the radiant sun, the vanished / moon. See how they are going / to collide, the many decisions / the moon made, the sun in its / place and bright and not waiting, / but willing.”
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“Roadside Freak Show”
“The thing crafted from fabric and plaster, / more pile of dirt and wet cardboard / than realistic human skeleton, lies / under glass in a white cinderblock / coffin elevated over the concrete floor / in the last of three corrugated steel sheds / at the roadside attraction.”
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Condemn
“Condemn / Condemn / when necessary / Condemn / Condemn white supremacists kkk nazis / whatever name gone by Condemn / always” -
Tiny Donkey Editor’s Note: “Ancient Moments of Telling”
“Biologists reconstruct the descent histories of life forms on planet Earth as the tree of life, its dense trunks and branches leading from common ancestors to new species. Such phylogenetic relationships are not limited to biology.” -
Tiny Donkey Editor’s Note: “Magic Mirrors on Every Wall”
“Locations are connected by wormholes.” -
Fairy Tale Review Fairy-Tale Files: “Cosplay Buffet”
“How far are people willing to alter their appearance?” -
Tiny Donkey Essay: “What We Lose”
“What must a boy lose to become a little bird? In “The Juniper Tree,” by the Brothers Grimm, the boy loses more than just his head and his life after he is murdered by his evil stepmother.” -
Fairy Tale Review Fairy-Tale Files: Once Upon a Microchip
“In ‘A Toy Princess,’ a fairy tale from the 1877 collection On a Pincushion by English writer Mary de Morgan, an emotional and expressive princess named Ursula grows up in a kingdom of such incredible politeness that its subjects have demonized almost any form of empathy or feeling.” -
Fairy Tale Review Fairy-Tale Files: “The Technologists Grimm”
“New medical technologies may not change boys into birds or the monster-laden into attractive spouses, but they can radically transform both the quality and life expectancy for people suffering from a variety of ailments.”
Richard Leis
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