by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 22, 2020 | Bubbler
Congratulations to our finalists! 480 writers participated in 3 categories. We considered prose to be any writing that went all the way across the page, and it included novels, novellas, story collections, essay collections, and memoir. We considered poetry to be just...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 20, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER, by Eric Tran (2020 Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 62 pages, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-938769-51-1) Reviewed by Derek Berry Eric Tran’s debut poetry collection The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, winner of the 2019 Autumn House Rising...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 24, 2020 | Bubbler
An atomizer is the part of a vape used to make mist out of liquid, to turn density into smoke. When one imagines the word atomizer, one imagines the vast being made into small digestible slivers. This is because unlike the clouds, a funnel of smoke has a direction,...
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...
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