huge congratulations to the winners of our summer contest, “a bug’s life”! these works creeped, crawled, and leaped into our hearts and imaginations. thank you to all who submitted—you can read the winning works online in early august!
“And so, dear night, let’s broker a deal: We will give you back the crows. We will include the singed urn
containing their voices, and return them to the realm of underbrush…” — read more robert mcdonald in issue v #read#poetry#litmag#writerslift#poetrytwitter
“I buried my father with his reading glasses and a copy of Animal Farm, a winter hat, mittens, and a scarf I’d knitted for him, a bottle of Cognac, a bottle of his heart medication, his wedding ring, and an extra pair of clean underwear.” —max kruger-dull, issue v #read#litmag
“On that lurid afternoon when Rick confessed his affair, Claudia sat stunned on their velvet couch as he stumbled through, ‘You are absolutely blameless,’ and, ‘This is the last thing I wanted to happen.’” —read more milly heller in issue ii today! #fiction#litmag#prose#reader
“The government declared it heritage site and no one/was allowed to build on it. The Tequesta have been extinct/ since the conquest of Florida, /but knock knock, they are rattling the daylight, just a little/like a child’s first words in the darkness.” —jay snodgrass #poetry