by anniebellequattlebaum | Apr 15, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
I’m in the gym locker room drying off with a tiny, scratchy towel when I catch sight of my profile in the mirror. My breasts look even more wilted and vacant than usual in the industrial light. I think of my friend’s grandma, who said, “Honey, once you’ve had a baby,...
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 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...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 16, 2018 | Bubbler, FSR
Congratulations to the winners of our Heavenly Creatures Love Letter to the Sky Contest! 1st Place Claire Bateman “Fathom” 2nd Place Robbi Nester “Heavenly Creatures” 3rd Place Wayne Lee “Pinhole Camera” Honorable Mentions Peter...
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