Issue #12 ~ Summer 2023, HoneyBee Prize
Released August 4, 2023
Flash Fiction:
Birds of Prey by Tiffany Promise
The Language of Family by Hemmy So
FLASH NONFICTION:
Selfishly, I Planted Flowers by Rachel Sussman
Poetry:
“For Kenny” by Kelsey Smoot
Ras Tafari Ghazal by Oak Morse
Two Poems by Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason
To Brother-Ghost on Halloween by Pell Williams
Amnesty Week by R.J. Lambert
STAGE & Screen:
Purg City by Milton Joseph
Translation:
Ixim by Isabel Pascual Andrés, Translation by Kiran Baht
FICTION:
Pretty Women by Blake Kinnett
Nonfiction:
Coyote by Nicki Orser
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…
How to Hear God While Making Thanksgiving Dinner by Charlene Pierce
The turkey is raw and waiting to be stuffed. The pies are done. The oven isn’t beeping yet, or maybe it is, but you can’t hear it, and you smell the browning crust taking over the pumpkin’s spices. You used to make them by hand, back when you had time or when you thought you had…
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TGLR Spotlight…
A Conversation With Rodrigo Toscano
Rodrigo Toscano is a poet and dialogist based in New Orleans. He is the author of eleven books of poetry. His most recent books are The Cut Point (Counterpath, 2023), and The Charm & The Dread (Fence Books, 2022). Rodrigo is this year’s judge of the Honeybee Literature Prize in Poetry and we’re grateful he took the time to answer some questions about his life, the factors that played into his becoming and early career…
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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: Andrew Furey