by anniebellequattlebaum | Feb 14, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
I tell her more often now because she is ageless and I am over seventy. Because it’s the same girl’s face I first got to know fifty years ago with the same sunburst of energy. Because starting out together was predictable but the end of either one of us now may come...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jan 14, 2019 | Bubbler
Our publisher Galileo Press has opened its reading period for book submissions. Selected authors will receive a standard book contract. Most press runs are 400 copies. Note, manuscripts need not be press ready, but please have them complete enough for us to give you a...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jan 7, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
There are 25 reasons why we’re so excited about the new issue of Free State Review coming in March, and one of them is Brittany Ackerman. She sent us a story, “While You Were in China,” that rolled us completely down the mountain. Have a look at her...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Nov 15, 2018 | Bubbler, FSR
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by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 25, 2018 | Bubbler, FSR
Of drowning in the sky there can be no end. Even the sky drowns in place, plummeting, shocked to be vertical, and only as it gaspingly approaches the ground does it start to perceive its own transparent nature— all along, it had assumed its labor was occlusive, its...
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