by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 1, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
Her poetry collection, “The Arsonist,” is available on The Main Street Rag. “Arsonists are descended from dragons, and Susan Sonde is a poet with wings and teeth. She flies through centuries, blending a scriptural cadence with post-Modern shrieks. If...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 3, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
by Nancy Jainchill “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. A STEAMY SUMMER DAY IN AUGUST 1964, ON MY WAY TO visit family for a cookout in the suburbs, I fell...
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 30, 2019 | FSR
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR HAS ANYONE EVER GONE THROUGH A PERIOD OF DRAWING R E A L in a big loopy font with psychedelic hues? It’s fun to mess around with reality, bend it into balloon animals, drop it off a rooftop. To make it unreal with magic or disorder. To...
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 anniebellequattlebaum | Jun 12, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
Thomas Gresham is a native Texan now living in California. His work appears in Superstition Review, Permafrost, Gravel, and Ocotillo Review. His story ‘Peach’ recently won the Prose and Poetry contest at Carve Magazine. He is also an editor for Fiction...
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