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The Echo of Footsteps by Ibrahim Abdulhakeem
Each step carried the weight of exhaustion, of dreams deferred and dignity swallowed in silence. Ayo would listen from his room, curled up with his homework, his hands clammy as he gripped his pen. Would today be different? Would the tension in the air dissipate, leaving room for laughter instead of raised voices?…
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Jamie Wendt Reviews “The Deep Blue of Neptune” by Terry Belew
Belew’s use of imagery highlights his capacity to notice the anger and guilt for the way we live, whether due to recklessness, and dreams we lose sight of when we notice our over-reliance on technology, which he explores in the poem “Wish List While Reading the News on my Phone,” where he begs, “Find me stupid / videos so I laugh, because the news / is someone killing another…”
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Author Q&A with David Hutto
This story began with the leftovers of another story that I eventually hated and threw away. That other story had a few fragments that I liked, the small stories that now appear on the radio in “A Boy Who Thinks Quite a Deal.” I saved those bits without a clue what I’d do with them, and eventually came up with an utterly different story, changing it from adults in New Jersey to a child in Great Britain.
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Author Q&A with Eve Addams
I try to set aside time to write every day. The next day, before I write anything new, I go back and revise what I wrote the day before. It’s a life lesson, I suppose. To review your behavior, critique it, analyze room for improvement…
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Rocks by Mk Smith Despres
In the waking world, she asks for pajama pants for Christmas so she can wear them to school. So she can go cozy up the front walk, the one where she saw her friend last week, neck red and swollen with trying and trying and trying. So she told, right away she told. The friend went home. Went somewhere. And she went to class. Swallowed rocks. Took a math test…
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Author Q&A with Brad Snyder
At some level, the process of writing this piece reminded me of how much music has been a constant companion through the seasons of my life. It’s pretty extraordinary to realize how music, or really any work of art, can be both a reflection of and a catalyst for new understanding and insight…
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Author Q&A with Marlene Olin
I try to set aside time to write every day. The next day, before I write anything new, I go back and revise what I wrote the day before. It’s a life lesson, I suppose. To review your behavior, critique it, analyze room for improvement…
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wedged together we are flying by Reva Elise Johnson
The spinning top is a tailbone stuck upright, wrapped in broad swaths of gluteus, squashed into the middle seat of an airplane row that my favorite 9-year-old would say smells exactly like a freezer full of farts. We are wedged together; we are flying. There was someone on a plane when the divorce decree was stamped and sealed. A muffled roaring, just a white noise that swaddles me. The angles of my joints are locking into place but…
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Author Q&A with Rodrigo Toscano
All my sonnets – hundreds of them, are made up of 10 syllables lines (or units). No exceptions. No cheating on line breaks, like just hitting the return key. Meaning units are integral to each other. The flow flows from a constructivist impulse…
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Author Q&A with Simon Ashton
The world can seem tremendously scary, particularly at this moment in history, but slowing down to carve out a little quiet for yourself is not only possible but essential. And, while I’m not a spiritual person I do believe, if we let it, life sometimes connects us with the right person at the right moment.
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Return by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
You did not understand the words but that didn’t matter. God hears his creations in all the dialects of their yearning. You remember weeks of the storms on the ship sailing the Caribbean Sea where God was a thin thread you hanged on for dear life…
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Introducing Issue #21 ~ Autumn 2025
Welcome, friends, to fall and the latest edition of TGLR. Yes, today is the day… The big reveal of Issue #21!! It’s always a delight to introduce the authors and artists we meet through the publication process, but it’s especially wonderful when people are as kind as this bunch. We’re honored to promote them and this bountiful collection of amazing work!…
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The cure to all the maladies that ail us by Jonathan Greenhause
won’t be scooped from a ballot box, nor delivered on the wings of a dodo. You may ask yourself why seek what’s extinct? Why brush your filling-packed teeth with Sriracha, then wonder why your gums are a 5-alarm fire? Your skin’s a jellyfish armored with translucence, the paleontology of a fragile skeleton divined underneath…
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Golden Hour in the District of Columbia by Noah Lane Browne
when I’m halfway through my beer I use the restroom and when I come back you nod towards a young man a few picnic tables over (young man being my words not yours and maybe a bit condescending or something my grandmother would say, what I really mean is just some guy) who had strutted over to you while I was peeing and flirted with you and tried to pick you up…
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