by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 14, 2020 | Bubbler
Hey, I’m just a girl, standing 5 feet away from a boy. Asking him to maybe move back another foot. Thanks. I saw you from across the bar. Stay there. You smell so good. Is that Purell you’re wearing? If I told you that you have a beautiful body, would you hold it...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 9, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 8, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Aug 24, 2020 | Bubbler
by Linda Caradine Last night I told Klaus that I was thinking of scrapping my memoir. As an elder sibling he should have some insight into this decision, but I had to supply reasons more than it seemed like the right thing to do. I told him there is a sub-genre known...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Aug 13, 2020 | Bubbler
Review by Derek Berry When a character in Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’ debut story collection Sleepovers describes her father’s drink-of-choice as “Crown and Mountain Dew from his special shrimp cup with the little pink shrimp shaking his booty on it,” I understood I was...
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