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The Boys Of Night Winter, Paul Sohar

Bryant Literary Review

Their puffy winter jackets lifting their

faces high above the horizon

the boys troop in from the snow

The Hills Of Laura, Billy Lombardo

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It is true that I hated Hucker Norton. But I did not mean to crush his thumb.

He wasn't one of us, really. Even his name told you he was from some other place. We were Petey and Tommy and Davy and Matty, and he was Hucker.

A Persistent Error, Dorinda Clifton

Bryant Literary Review

My-Hundred-Year-Old Window

I live on the second floor of an old building. One room, one window. Having only one window keeps me focused on the life I can see within its perimeter.

Touching My Reflection, Michele Heather Pollock

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I peer into a mirror
of last night's rain

In A Field Near Sardis Dam, Louis Bourgeois

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Silence. A scarecrow flickers in the wind.

The corn is dead. Geese speckle the horizon,

followed by crows and herons.

Dress Rehearsal For Utopia, Karen Donovan

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We're glad they made Clear Falls.

The white rocks love the water,

the water loves its splash and brim.

The Wounded, Dave Cappella

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The one-legged pigeon understands

the loneliness of the man.

Hobbling under the patio table

behind a chair, the bird waits

for a morsel from the stranger.

The Snow Moon, Rebecca Lilly

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A full moon sheared the tip of a pine. Lying in bed, a woodsman and

his wife saw it one December night. "Something must be done," said

his wife. "I know it's a sign."

Contributors

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In Oxford Cemetery, Louis Bourgeois

Bryant Literary Review

You thought because

the trees moved

and the stones didn't

Lights And Shadows - 2004, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Southern Star., Shanda Schrae Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Southern Star” follows protagonist Sally Gayle through the cycle of maturation. Complex family relationships and secrets hinder Sally as she searches for her identity in this bidungsroman set in a small, rural area of Southern Appalachia. Taking a minimalist, cinematic approach, “Southern Star” experiments with form and technique in an attempt to convey pure story to the reader. The work particularly focuses on character development, authentic dialogue, and a sense of place.

Ruling Powers, Scot A. Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

While the fantasy genre is one of the most widely read modes of writing, literary criticism and academic discussion of the genre takes place at a much lower level. This imbalance has developed in part because of a misconception that fantasy genre writings cannot accomplish significant, literary purposes. This thesis first offers an argument for why the fantasy genre should receive more attention in scholarly circles, then presents an excerpt of a fantasy novel. The argument draws from the limited amount of existing criticism to highlight the strengths of the fantasy genre, building a case that, in most respects, works …

What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

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The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

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blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz

Kindergarten, Lisa Zimmerman

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It's hard to know

how much they love their children,

these mothers and fathers

Arabia, Jeffrey David Peckham

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Although he feels just fine, Neil still takes the morning off and keeps his appointment.

Contributors

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Look Now, Charlotte Mandel

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Bronze oak leaves like cupped hands

offer rainwater

Explanation, Peter Johnson

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What should I tell you? That it rained for five straight days, that the gutters leaked in spite of the duct tape,that a rat ate through the cellar screen and killed the cat.

The Present, Fred Muratori

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It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

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The : )'s in my e-mail remind me how

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

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I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

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"What?" I asked again, and the Indian doctor repeated it."

An Innocent Heart, Catherine Harris

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I lived in a share house then, with embossed gold paisley wallpaper in the living room and rising damp in the hall.

Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

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Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.

Still Life, Brian Arundel

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We live a few hundred yards from a drive-in theater at the end of a dead end street on the edge of a small Virginia town called Spotsylvania that people only pass through on their way to someplace else.

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

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It does not mean the world is about to end.

Go inland, where the black of water and sky separate.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

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What would a fairy want with all those teeth?