Issue #11 ~ Spring 2023
Released April 12, 2023
FLASH NONFICTION:
The Heart and Other Organs by Nancy Jorgensen
Nonfiction:
Nocturnal Lagophthalmos by Christi Krug
The Truth About My Old Haunts by Elizabeth Collis
Translation:
You Shall Be the Earth by Roberto Azcorra Cámara, Translation by Pennell Somsen
Poetry:
War Time, 1942 by William Trowbridge
Mugshot by Sara Burge
I Remember Good Days by Ellen June Wright
Love Poem for My Mother by Patricia Aya Williams
Mass in Quarantine by Tania Runyan
The Last Trick by Eric Lochridge
FICTION:
Roger and Flight 8124 by Dustin Moon
Flash Fiction:
Good Friday by Richard Stimac
Two Micro Stories by Lauren Dennis
Introducing Micro Monday! Featuring brief fiction, cnf, and poetry. It’s like a shot of literary adrenaline to jump start your week.
This week’s Feature…
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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Author Spotlight…
Author Q&A with Sarah Schiff
We all know that fiction lies its way to the truth, so I want to promote truth in a world riddled with lies, and I want to add just a little bit of beauty to a world that, at times, can be heartbreakingly ugly…
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The Good Life Review nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
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from the archives:
Summer Elegy II by Todd Robinson
Summer Elegy II | Todd Robinson Nebraska’s bare branchespaw at skies full of pointless blue, mercurial daymoon.Powerless like me or my disabled wifewobbling our broken palace in cashmere and bracken. She…
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Backwards and Blind by Helyn Trickey Bradley
Backwards and Blind | Helyn Trickey Bradley Grief has made me a morning person. It shakes me awake at three a.m and whispers with a hoarse voice into my ear. …
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dear sister by Sequoia Maner
dear sister | Sequoia Maner i’d like to think we never experienced a world where foster care fostered absence. we went to the roller rink for birthdays. later we…
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Street People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis by Sally Quon
Street People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis | Sally Quon “Marianna” Marianna is on the street tonight. She has a bed, but there are times when her psychosis is…
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What They Carried With Them by Ellen June Wright
What They Carried With Them | Ellen June Wright They carried everything one can bring when one can bring nothing. They carried everything they knew: languages and dialects, songs mothers taught…
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Cover Art: Scarred Beauty by Gerburg Garmann