Thank you so much for the nomination, hex!!!

The Duets Anthology is available! You can find the (free) PDF in the link or purchase a print copy!
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This anthology is a love letter and letter of gratitude to so many writers and editors that have inspired me along the way...

Super honored and grateful to be nominated by Reckon Review with all these other amazing writers! Thank you Meagan Lucas and the other Reckon editors!

'One of us admits her husband looked, driving past, looked and kept looking. His breath ragged. She doesn’t say any more, but we know. He liked it. That helpless curve of hip.'
Wow, this story from Myna Chang in Writers Resist 🏳️‍🌈!
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'is a melanoma sun scorching your driving hand while your other sneaks pineapple lumps and chocolate fish, sips of L&P sugar-rushing you straight back to CDs and spaghetti straps and first kisses.'
Love this story from Sumitra (short i, as in admit) (she/her) in Reckon Review!

“Maybe the last 18 years of raising my daughter, all that meaning and purpose and love, was just a fever dream of normalcy that I’m now shaking off like sleep.” Read Eliot Li’s (Eliot Li) fever infested flash fiction, “Parentification”: buff.ly/3tST7bn

'They come jack-tumbling to ground, the stars, with girl faces, looking like our sisters when they put on makeup in front of the bulb-lined mirror'
Love this from Cathy Ulrich in GASTROPODA || SUBS OPEN!
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Contributor copy arrived! It looks great! Thanks to Cohesion Press & A J Spedding!

Incredibly honored to have my story 'Guangxi56' (originally published in Atticus Review) in Best Small Fictions 2023, alongside so many great stories from many of my favorite authors! Thank you editors at Alternating Current Press!
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'I turned to my first love. Before Dan. I’d always wanted to study turtles.'
Love this story from KimSteutermannRogers in Scrawl Place!
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'Jesus in the picture is shiny and half-invisible, like a jellyfish you don’t see until it stings. You could pop him like a soap bubble if you put your hand through, and you do.'
Wow! This story from K is for KATE Who Was Struck with an Axe in The Lascaux Review!
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For friends outside the US, 'Skin Over Milk' is also available on Amazon India and elsewhere as an e-book.

Myra has made it all the way to the Czech Republic. Also, I have a new last name. So proud of this little book and the places it keeps exploring. And if you’re looking for a cozy read for gifting season, I hope you’ll think of the Mansion. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708472/t…

Happy to have a new story up Spry Lit! Thank you Phil Lemos!
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Love this story from Sudha Balagopal in Mythic Picnic--it triggered the memories of childhood spelling bee family trauma for me, too!

Thank you so much for the Pushcart nomination, Peatsmoke Journal!

'When my brother died I stared at the chair he’d been sitting in for hours. I called my ex-boyfriend from my bed, a bog of tears, and asked him to film it. Begged him to help me see.'
Sofia Drummond-Moore in Pithead Chapel.
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'I remember: At the nape of your neck, a feather of a finger draws a line. A little line inching up, up, up.'
Beautiful story from Pat Foran in The Mersey Review!
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'I tell you how often I awake in the middle of the night panting, afraid that you’ve left, your side of the bed cooling, your bags packed and hidden for months'
Love this from Tommy Dean in Fictive Dream!
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