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The Colonel Catches a Catfish
Right now as you read these words, two people who have fallen in love online are about to meet for the first time in person. They have been exchanging intimate thoughts and personal histories by email and text multiple times an hour for as long as several years. He hopes…
Death Fairies
I discovered the death fairies one cold February evening. Dusk was looming, but the day had been gray enough that the coming of night was hardly noticeable, except for the deepening dampness that gnawed more fiercely into my fingertips and joints. Fresh black soil was spilled carelessly over the aggregate…
Bone Memory
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Definitions of Bravery
You've been on the road for six hours already. The Bureau wouldn't pay for airfare, so you and your partner are driving. More specifically, he is driving. You're in the passenger seat calculating cost of plane tickets versus cost of gasoline and, after factoring in fuel efficiency and time, you're…
Bailey Williams
Brett William Scott is an environmentalist and writer. On the scenic route there, she has been a Mormon, US Marine, dancer, nomad, horse wrangler, and nuclear weapons researcher. She lives between Montevideo, Uruguay, and San Francisco, and she is gravely relieved she is no longer any of these things. She…
Jane St. Clair
Jane St. Clair finally made it to Emily Dickinson's house last summer. She was so moved by Emily's room with its little window and little desk that she cried, causing the tour to wait until she composed herself. Jane's first novel, Walk Me to Midnight, was published by a small…
Jocelyn Pihlaja
Jocelyn has been teaching English at the college level since 1991. She has a husband who cooks dinner every night, kids who hold up hands requesting “Silence!” when their reading is interrupted, and a blog, O Mighty Crisis. In addition to writing for online publications, she also is a regular…
Jo-Ann Allan-Forbes
After the enlightenment visited upon her as a result of the planting that took place in this essay, Jo-Ann Allan-Forbes (Jo) decided to try her hand at some actual gardening. When avoiding certain homemaker responsibilities such as housework and homeschooling, she can often be found in her yard nurturing berries…
George Buelow
Born and raised in Vicksburg, Mississippi, George Buelow has two well-received psychotherapy textbooks, and is working on a literary thriller set in post-Katrina south Mississippi and on a book of poetry. He has done anthropological research in Alaska and Liberia, practiced psychotherapy, taught at the Universities of Oregon, South Carolina,…
Madeline Baars
Madeline Baars has her Master's Degree in Public Health, and works for a non-profit which serves incarcerated women and their daughters in the Pacific Northwest. Until recently, Madeline lived, worked, and played in the wild wards of New Orleans, Louisiana. The world is more orderly now, with numbered streets, deadlines,…
Nina Vaag
A voracious reader and aspiring author from northern Arkansas, Nina Vaag turned to writing when she realized that any other career choice would almost certainly drive her bonkers. When she's not at home drawing, knitting, or arguing with the characters in her head about whose story should be written next,…
Janet Schneider
Janet received her MFA in Fiction writing from Spalding University in 2013 and since then has won Harpur Palate's 2014 John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction, appeared as an Editor's Pick in Pooled Ink: Celebrating the 2014 Northern Colorado Writers Contest Winners, and third place in the 2015 Stoneslide Corrective's…
Anne Hotta
Anne Hotta has published nonfiction in journals, newspapers, and in book form in Australia, Japan, and the USA. As a recent but devoted writer of short stories, she revels in this demanding but highly rewarding genre. She writes stories showing people—women, men, eastern, and western—living imperfect, ordinary lives but at…
Robert Goswitz
Robert Goswitz is a retired, dog-walking novelist who believes his best qualities will soon be discovered. He was a special education teacher for thirty-three years working with cognitively disabled, emotionally disturbed, and at-risk youth. Before that he was awarded a Bronze Star and the Combat Infantry Badge for his service…
Roberta George
Roberta George was born in Bisbee, Arizona, and also lived in California and Texas, where she went to Catholic girls' schools. Almost every summer of her life was spent with her German grandmother on a 20-acre farm in the South, which left her with an overwhelming desire to pick blackberries…
Laura Fanning
Laura Fanning is a former actress who earns her living as a Special Education teacher in Moraga, California. Work of hers has appeared in Flash Fiction World, Scholars & Rogues, Cylamens and Swords, and in the Zimbell House Anthology Pagan. Her short play, Somewhere Close to Texas, was produced by…
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2015
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!
Tu Books
Publisher of diverse middle-grade and YA novels
The Pillow Book
By Jee Leong Koh
The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
Edited by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, & Max King Cap
Morning in the Burned House
By Margaret Atwood
Vetch
Online journal of poetry by trans authors
“Each Morning I Rise Like a Sleepwalker & Rot a Little More.”
By Jeff Walt
Subscriber News: September 2015
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Antigua’s Hope
By Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Cathy Bryant Wins the 14th Annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its 14th annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest
Water on Rocks
By Mary Lou Taylor
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Complete Works of Shakespeare at MIT Online
The web’s first edition of Shakespeare’s complete works
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The Politics of Empathy
Ethical considerations for writing about oppression as an ally
Gourmet at Seventy Nine
By Robert Joe Stout
Bright Sky, Cole Night
By Anne Kaylor
Brilliant Flash Fiction
Online quarterly journal with cash prizes
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Ringed
By Fathima E.V.
5-Hydroxy-tryptophan as potential treatment for L-DOPA-induced impulsivity as measured by a delay-discounting task in a 6-OHDA lesion-induced rodent model of Parkinson's Disease
In Hall D of McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, Between the walls of steel and glass, a room laid out in aisles and rows Of poster boards hung side by side, pinned and tacked to metal frames, With dosage graphs and treatment charts and diagrams of rodent brains, We swarmed the…
Paradise Soiled
My Lord! It's ugly! It's downright disturbing! Those Argus eyes! Those crafty legs —Unnerving! Such was the buzz in Heaven when the fly was first unveiled. Gabriel heaved a sigh: The wings are lacy, the body iridescent, which in another context, might be pleasant, though gaudy touches, but in black…
Out of Sync at the Kitchen Sink
Elbow deep in suds and scrubbing, Behind me I feel someone rubbing. Suddenly two hands on breasts. Really, I think, is there no rest? “Do you want to make love?” I hear him ask. Wipe my forehead, distracted from the task Of washing dishes, steam in my eyes, I respond,…
Artificial Intelligence
Hello nameless face. I believe we have met before, But there was nothing worth remembering about the encounter. You are right inconsequential acquaintance. I am moderately confident That you might be the husband of a friend of someone With whom my wife is relatively familiar. I do have a wife,…
The Savior, Just in Time
Christ upon the cross looked out upon Calvary. The sweat on his brow mixed with dirt from his face, and it dripped down to flop on the Centurion's helmet. The soldier backed away. He was bored. He hated crucifixions. They were the worst duty; he should have a better billet,…
Against the Campaign to Stomp Out “Awesome”
Awesome is so casual in its clothing, its announcements like tacky Hawaiian shirts depicting my dearest nouns' dying—yesterday's chile-relleno burrito, or last week's pinkest sunset, or dad's new surfboard, or the news the darkness on my forehead is benign. Yep, awesome “is elegy to what it signifies,” meditates Robert Hass,…
The Scunthorpe Problem
Dear Sirs I email to complain about your filter for profanity. Its over-sensitivity's a danger to my sanity. Imagine if you will the embarrbuttment I face when it subsbreastutes instead part of an ordinary phrase. Emails last December nearly caused me a divorce Re: my mother-in-law's visit to us from…
Ode to a North Woods August (Sort Of)
Stillness. The calm before a storm of life Rumbles and hums and begins afresh. The quiet lake glows in anticipation of the approaching sun, Its waters' ebb and flow are as the breath Of the slumbering wilderness, sleeping mostly soundly Before it finally awakens. The spectral loon's cry, beautifully haunting,…
Problem 6
A 5'9” Robert Frost is sleepwalking by woods on a particularly snowy evening. Snow is accumulating at a rate of 9 inches per hour, and the only motel flashing “VACANCY” is the Champagne 5 Deluxe Value Inn 13.7 miles away. Assume Frost packed neither snowshoes nor snowmobile, and cannot walk…
Singing Assembly
“Heads, Shoulders, knees and toes, Edward, please don't pick your nose, Lucy, what on earth is wrong? Please join in and sing the song. Jack and Jill went up the hill, Emma, could you please sit still? Jonathon, do not hit Ben! Right, we'll sing it all again. The wheels…
