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from the archives:
Summer Elegy II by Todd Robinson
Nebraska’s bare branches
paw at skies full of pointless
blue, mercurial daymoon.
Powerless like me
Passport by Nicholas Cormier III
The streetlights of downtown Santa Monica shimmer off of the gold eagle on the cover of my prized little blue book. The great seal illuminating the words: United States. Each page stamped with multi-colored tattoos that harken to my life before these nightly searches for dirty cigarette butts and food.
Blinding by Ali Bryan
You’re lucky, he says. To have three. Three kids he means, of course. Their fleshy thighs press against you, their sopping hair and wrinkled suits graze your arms.
Flash by Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason
Not a soul notices / how beautiful the Capitol building looks in this rain, confetti / of light beams, / orange pickup spinning on the green, / tires spraying mud across the cosmos.
Sleepless by Marian Cronin
MEREDITH
I’m afraid that I’ve hidden my true nature for as long as I can.
JIMMY
Your true nature being…?
MEREDITH
Terrible, Jimmy. Just awful.
The audience laughs.
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submissions:
We are currently reading for this year’s Honeybee Prize (submissions are closed). This year the prize payout has increased to $14oo and the judges are as follows:
Poetry – Kwame Dawes
Stage and Screen – Charlene A. Donaghy
Fiction – Mary Kuryla
Nonfiction – Jessica Hendry Nelson
Finalists will be announced in June and winners in July. Visit our contest page for all the details!
The Good Life Review only accepts previously unpublished work. Please read submission guidelines and when you’re ready, head over to Submittable to submit your work.
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