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Ire Man, James B. Nicola May 2019

Ire Man, James B. Nicola

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When the life is mostly moor, make it poetry.


Midnight Run To Nacogdoches, Robert L. Penick May 2019

Midnight Run To Nacogdoches, Robert L. Penick

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He is sitting in a fast food restaurant, pining for a woman who has never had an original thought in her life. It is Christmas Eve, and she is five hundred miles away, celebrating with her new in-laws. He is a damned fool, but hasn’t quite realized it yet.


Naming Southwest Oklahoma, Molly Sizer May 2019

Naming Southwest Oklahoma, Molly Sizer

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Young Andrew Carnegie invested years steeling money; in his old age, he built imposing music halls on the east coast and libraries in rural towns out west.


New Barista, Dennis Ross May 2019

New Barista, Dennis Ross

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She moves like a half-grown colt, all legs and skinny arms…


Princesses, Donna L. Emerson May 2019

Princesses, Donna L. Emerson

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First grade girls are deciding who’s a princess. They say I’m not one.


Promise, Jack Cooper May 2019

Promise, Jack Cooper

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Her hands looked old boney and bruised but her face young her cheeks blushed her eyes wandering


Skippings Rocks, Chad W. Lutz May 2019

Skippings Rocks, Chad W. Lutz

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There’s a place in town where the only two roads meet, marked by an old sycamore. Its bark is blotchy, and the few limbs it has left reach for the sky like the pleading arms of a dying man.


Summer Thunderstorm, Richard Dinges Jr. May 2019

Summer Thunderstorm, Richard Dinges Jr.

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A cold pierce, bolts crack sky’s lids, a brief glimpse at eternity


The Choice Is Mine, John Grey May 2019

The Choice Is Mine, John Grey

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I wear mismatched clothes, fill the sink with dirty dishes, sit and watch football on the TV until all hours


The Pie Lady, Shiann Dawson May 2019

The Pie Lady, Shiann Dawson

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You again. You don’t even remember me.


The Yellow Porch Swing, Aimee Klein May 2019

The Yellow Porch Swing, Aimee Klein

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The smell of honeysuckle carried on a breeze the soft squeak


Trash, Eleanore Lee May 2019

Trash, Eleanore Lee

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To find where the Johnsons used to live, You have to turn up the old dirt road, Hang left, then go on past the splintered gate


Villanelle: Flood Time, Eleanore Lee May 2019

Villanelle: Flood Time, Eleanore Lee

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The skies above just opened up, hear how the torrent roars… On city streets, through parks and lots, our stains are washed away.


Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz Dec 2018

Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz

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Many years ago while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I decided to take an early morning stroll in the city’s art district.


314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan Dec 2018

314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan

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It’s moving day—the sun glimmers as dimly as Venus in the morning sky.


Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson Dec 2018

Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson

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The coppery softness of cinnamon sticks to my fingers.


Qwerty, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Qwerty, James E. Fowler

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What you’ve seen but can’t place, always overlooking


Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler Dec 2018

Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler

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On the ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago, Gunilla


Frisk, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Frisk, James E. Fowler

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the air vent is a cat


Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler Dec 2018

Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler

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Tired of buzzing humdrum, she gaped.


Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw Dec 2018

Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw

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Window bound I sit and ponder Letting my sheltered eyes go wander.


Contributors, Westview Staff Dec 2018

Contributors, Westview Staff

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Heterochromia, John Tavares Dec 2018

Heterochromia, John Tavares

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This short fiction, with a dystopic vision, is set in a future Toronto, devastated by social unrest and a nuclear disaster, while the action of the story explores a retired librarian’s conflict with a repressive censorship authority.


For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil Dec 2018

For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil

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In your favorite episode, you are past your prime


In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil Dec 2018

In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil

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In the black and white snapshot, my father and my uncle, sweaty from volleyball, stand side-by-side


My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy

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Longer now than sixty years ago, dying in a veterans’ hospital, committed by my mother


Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy Dec 2018

Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy

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In 1918 Julia Lehan, age nineteen, lives in Roxbury


Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman Dec 2018

Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman

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As a follow up to that classic


I Remember Rodney, David Vancil Dec 2018

I Remember Rodney, David Vancil

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You admitted you’d abused your body


Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells Dec 2018

Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells

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This distance is real.