by anniebellequattlebaum | Aug 19, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
by David Dodd Lee We do try to speak out, voices in little bursts, the snapping of twiglets, maybe in a bustlefrom bedroom to office. As well, aghast, we sometimes overthink, estranged in themoment, estranged by the moment, a lack of imagination, of experience....
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 27, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
As seen in The Geography of Home by Matthew Graham For Marcus Wicker New things is comin’ Altogether diverse From what they has been. –Reverend W.C. Thompson of the Pentecostal Church, 34th and South State Street, Chicago, Illinois I. The Facts The Red...
by Free State Review | Jul 21, 2019 | Bubbler
by Derek Berry Texas Crude, the debut short story collection by Thomas Kearnes, offers an intimate portrait of gay lives in East Texas. In equal measures erotic, heartbreaking, and rousing, the collection invites us into his characters’ inner lives, whether they be...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 16, 2019 | Bubbler
There’s something deliciousin riding the airport shuttlewithout one’s affairs in order.Such a relief to motor away from chaos. All those passwords commemoratedon long-gone slips of paper,dental records at a new officethe name of which I’ve repeated...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 11, 2019 | Bubbler
for Tess Like an orbiting satellite,my daughter’s yellow cap bobsaround the lobster holding tankof the illuminated fresh seafood display,He’s not swimming, Daddy,she informs me.He’s resting, baby,I reply, thinking he’s not alive, but dead and...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 8, 2019 | Bubbler
Born near 1870, she did not get her epithetuntil 1926–Unknown Woman of the Seine. Camus called her a drowned Mona Lisa;suitable, as she was pulled from the riverat the Quai du Louvre, the museum whereMona Lisa has been since 1797. Inconnuean apparent suicide,...
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