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The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop

Edited by Diane Lockward

The Mystic Blue Review

Bimonthly online global magazine of writing and art

We called him Moochy. He was always darting around the cafeteria, shouldering up to somebody, feigning lack and then taking their milk or their HoHo's or anything he could get. Mostly it was chips because he loved salt. He would sneak under the bleachers at the ball field during the…

Girls Needed $200/HR Weekends and Nights

The ad in City Paper says you'll model for gentlemen, and you like the sound of that. Modelling for gentlemen would be an excellent way to fuck with your ex-boyfriend. When your roommate Shawn is working at the construction site and your roommate Rachel is hanging her latest show, sit…

No One Said It Would Be Easy

Your first message is from some kid who only just gained the right to drink in bars this past November, and what he writes to you is I like older women. Good lord. You log off. The next morning you wake up in your new bedroom in a small town…

Return

We were supposed to get high at lunchtime behind the uprights in the athletic field in the little bit of woods the dopers had carved out for themselves. And then Piantedosi, who was going to bring the herb, only had some acid. I had sworn never to trip but I…

Two More Fishing Trips

I always thought my brother would die in the woods, felled by a tree, crushed in a rocky ravine, shot by another deer hunter, or that his chain saw would buck in a gnarled maple tree and bounce back, leaving his bloody remains for some hapless wanderer to find. Or…

Buoyancy

On a beautiful late summer day in 1967, just before I was to be married, my parents went to a neighborhood barbecue. I was thinking of my parents as old, then, but they were just in their early forties—still vibrant and youthful in the world's eyes. They went to the…

To Live Without Air

My American friends who visit Bogota always ask “Where is the air?” and I don't tell them that I left my mountaintop city for air many years ago. However, I have always known one can live without it, in fact, sometimes life demands we do exactly that. That is what…

Arizabesu

I am five. My mother has picked me up from school after her lunch shift at the restaurant. She smells like cooking oil, sliced fish, and soy sauce. I am ashamed of her smell, her apron. I am ashamed of how she nods and bows to greet my teachers, and…

Moving Past the Label

My classmates and I sat cross-legged in a circle, a small group of Israeli high school students from the Advanced Arabic class. Our teacher leaned against a pine tree, presiding over our version of a traditional storytelling scene. We were taking turns reciting classic tales that we had memorized in…

Obroni’s Heart

The elders, they say anyone who knows their way through the Kumasi central market will have earned their path through life, all the way to heaven. Me, Aaron, nine years old, I've always known it: I'm going to heaven. The elders say heaven is full of ripe papayas and mangoes,…

My Mother’s Life

The first time after I read Raymond Carver's My Father's Life, I called my mother immediately. I waited for the dial tone to be replaced by the familiar “hello, baby” from my mother's young voice, always bright with a sharp rise in intonation on the last syllable, almost like a…

The Finder

“You need a hair cut, shipmate.” His voice was sharp and clear, as if he was standing on the bow of his ship, addressing another sailor. “You look like a hippy. We need to get you squared away, sailor.” His tone was undeniably stern. The tone he used with our…

The Mule Deer

When my oldest son is the size of an apple, my belly begins to push out against my overalls. It is late summer, and the monsoons have brought a week of night rain in the Arizona desert. The water sounds like stones being thrown against the tin roof. I lie…

Length of Days

Burton sat across from the digital MRI of his prostate. No matter where he looked in the room, the splotch of tumor on the computer screen seemed to fix on him, like the eyes in some portraits. He conjured up his young partner's face for comfort. Paton's face, radiating warmth,…

Jacqueline Sheehan

Jacqueline Sheehan is a New York Times Bestselling author. She spent twenty years in Oregon, California, and New Mexico engaged in painting houses, photography, journalism, clerking in a health food store, and directing a traveling troupe of puppeteers. She became a psychologist on her way to becoming a novelist. Her…

Sharon Mack

Sharon Mack is a graduate of the University of Hartford in Connecticut, was an award-winning journalist with the Bangor Daily News for 30 years, and lives in Machias, Maine. She is currently the executive director of the Machias Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. She has six children, seven grandchildren and…

Elizabeth Brina

Elizabeth Miki Brina received her MFA in Creative Writing from University of New Orleans, and her BA in English and Philosophy from Northeastern University in Boston. She taught high school special education for six years. Now she teaches composition and ESL. She writes mostly personal essays and is working on…

Deb Brandon

Deborah (Deb) Brandon, Ph.D., was born in England, raised in Israel, Switzerland, and England, and now lives in the United States. She has been a professor in the Mathematical Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon University since 1991. She has participated nationally and internationally in dragon boating. She is a mother,…

Queenie Au

Queenie Au is an aspiring writer and an office administrator at the University of Glasgow. Coming from a diverse yet complicated background, she writes about cultural differences, feminism and social values. Her most recent work, “Yanghwa Bridge”, received a Special Mention in the Nivalis Short Story Contest 2017. She received…

Debbie Weingarten

Debbie Weingarten's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Longreads, Guernica, New York Review of Books, and many other online and print outlets, including the 2016 and 2017 Best of Food Writing anthologies. She was a finalist for a 2019 James…

Anita Zachary

After years of raising a family of four girls with her husband, John, Anita Zachary went back to school to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She received her MFA from San Diego State University in 2016. She writes mostly fiction and what she calls hybrid poetry or poetry…

Cady Vishniac

Cady Vishniac is an English and Jewish studies doctoral student and an Endelman/Gitelman Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her stories have won the contests at Lascaux Review, Greensboro Review, New Letters, Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, Salamander, and New Millennium Writings, and also appear in Glimmer Train.…

Alec Solomita

Alec Solomita has worked as an editor, critic, fiction writer, and poet. He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1989 and went on to pursue a Ph.D at Princeton (he didn’t catch it). Alec’s reviews and essays have appeared in The New Republic, The New Criterion, The Wall…

Tracy Dowling

Tracy Alig Dowling has lived most of her life in the Washington DC area, and just recently “came home” to middle America. She lives now in Rome, Georgia, and is finally able to pursue the more creative side of writing, after working for most of her career in University Advancement.…

Wendie Burbridge

Wendie Burbridge is a kanaka maoli (Native Hawaiian) teacher and writer from Hawai'i. Her fiction, poetry, and plays have been published several times in different literary journals and textbooks, most notably by Bamboo Ridge Press, 'Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Fat Ulu Productions, Autumn House Press, and the University of…

Laure-Helene Boudier

Laure-Helene Boudier is a French and Chilean national raised in Paris. During the past ten years, her education and career have led her to live in San Francisco, Tokyo, London, Singapore, Accra and Dubai. Her writings are inspired by these peregrinations and the fascinating individuals she's been lucky enough to…

Joan Corwin

Before turning to full-time fiction writing, Joan Corwin taught literature and Victorian social history at Chicago-area colleges and universities. She writes both historical and contemporary fiction and has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies. Honors include the Dana Portfolio Award, the Chris O'Malley Prize, the Tusculum…