Alanna Duncan (@acdunc):
“Everything in your mouth feels bigger. When something is wrong, you know immediately, it feels tremendous and unconquerable.”
https://t.co/aBYptyPvE9
Joseph Parker Okay (@verysoftlake):
“... Before the snakes can reach Johanna, the front door rips itself from its hinges and sprints to Johanna, sweeping her into its arms and fleeing from the house.”
https://t.co/BtEM15Wfxn
Alethea Tusher (@AletheaTusher):
“... She will think on some random Wednesday in her elderly years of all the cupcakes she could have eaten while she hung from balconies waiting for the kind of love that floods one’s vagina with heroin.”
https://t.co/pwvYUaVr85
Sarah Roth (@saraheroth):
“...The old woman plucked the glacier from her belly and perched it on the gully’s cracked mouth. The young woman whispered to the glacier, and water pooled into the earth.”
https://t.co/zg1Rdgrhiq
Thomson Guster (@negativecopy):
“...The dump. The fields of bone. Carrion birds alight on wreckage. Broken things, purified without ceremony and reduced to ashen piles...”
https://t.co/utL6Qkki14
Jay Besemer (@divinetailor):
“...a wish to fall into to be held in
beloved arms but it’s too much
what is left to give when i’ve been
boiled away...”
https://t.co/u1W160TUMr
Sneha Subramanian Kanta (poetry editor of @ParenthesesArt):
“...in the Americas / I have carried forgiveness / in my belly / for long / now / it moves up / to my rib cage / I have / wept in elevators...”
https://t.co/1W4MZbsvgK
Zach Blackwood (@blackwhom):
“my mother is in detox
and i have to fall in love with the future right now.
i have to wear metal in my skin
and feel it warm and cool while i think of you.”
https://t.co/oOgPmrg0xP
as a writer, no one else's writing makes me so happy, angry (because I don't write like this) & awe-full at how much I love it https://t.co/D79149MZzt
We hope you’re enjoying the excerpts from our Issue 1 authors! We will keep them coming your way. Plz RT & share their work & our first issue with the world. Xo 🖤🌵
Moss Hope Angel (@8deadsuns):
“... The sea is full of water & water is always girl, always has been girl so I get in the water, I get in the sea & bathe myself fully in girl.”
https://t.co/bJAx7iy81e
Joshua Palmer (@gummybrzpalmer):
“...Three days in and the boykissers built against nature are lost in the meatmarket and thick with cabrito, rough with lengua, sick with menudo, souring skinmags stolen from the last gas station in West Texas.”
https://t.co/BZFhZqycIZ
Our poetry editor Sneha Subramanian Kanta has three poems in the inaugural issue of @SPFLITMAG. Read her poems here: https://t.co/XoZ1MuHhQ9 and the stellar issue here: https://t.co/ewwZchYSD8. #spreadthelove