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I Tried to Post by Paula Yup a picture on Facebook of the pumpkin latte I bought with money Juliet sent me but now itโ€™s my profile picture Then I tried to write a post...

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Colette Parris is a Caribbean-American attorney who returned to her literary roots during the pandemic. Her work can be found in Michigan Quarterly Review, Scoundrel Time, Gordon Square Review, The Healing Muse, LEON Literary Review ... Read more at coletteparris.com.

29.01.2026 23:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Boatman by J.W. Seabrooke It would be nice to talk to him again. A nice, normal drink with an old friend. There werenโ€™t many people I felt like seeing these days, and even fewer places I felt like going...

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A native New Yorker, J.W. Seabrooke studied writing at Columbia University and is currently living and writing in Switzerland.

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Anna Josephson is based in Washington, DC and teaching at the University of Maryland. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Does It Have Pockets, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel about a furloughed intern during a government shutdown.

10.01.2026 02:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Man Who Shot the Moon by Christopher Flakus The inside of the car is dark. Aspen trees with their white bodies flash by the passenger window. They frighten you, but you donโ€™t tell your father whose smells of sweat, cigarettes, and whiskey youโ€™v...

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A writer and poet from Mexico, US, MFA in fiction from the University of Houston, and currently a PhD Student at LSU's Comparative Literature program. He writes in English and Spanish. His first novel, Flight of the Chicxulub to be published by Pegasus Press.

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Toxic Accomplice by Kevin Langson Beyond the headline-grabbing accomplishments in grotesquerie, he is most vividly known for his habit of so fondly fondling his shotgun while his femme du jour gave him head, finally squeezing the trig...

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A queer social worker focused on forced migration, he left Chicago to begin working at a refugee resettlement agency in New Haven, where he continues as a grant writer. He has been published in TAYO Literary Magazine and the Best Gay Romance 2014 anthology.

20.11.2025 02:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Post by Aaron Rabinowitz After Grandma died my sister said, We need to send Uncle Larry cards, keep him happy, and I said, I donโ€™t think that he was ever happy and she said, We should all send him cards even just postcards an...

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Meridianโ€™s Short Prose Prize, PRISM Creative Nonfiction, CANSCAIPโ€™s Writing for Children Competition; residencies - British Columbia, CA, OR. Currently writer-in-residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Publishing: Grain, Malahat Review, The Masters Review

28.10.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Decision Tree by Michael Jones Which pickle to pick is not fit for childish deliberations, especially when pecks of pickles have picked this child and that and their mamas and daddies and their whole generations. Of the pickles you...

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Michael Jones poetry appears in journals such as Salamander, J Journal, Sugar House, and Beloit Poetry Journal. He has taught since 1990 in Oakland (CA) public schools.

21.10.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Maybe by Wolfgang Wright I was at my girlfriendโ€™s when she got a call from a friend whose car had run out of gas, and this friend wanted Katieโ€”thatโ€™s my girlfriendโ€”toโ€”and because her friend was pretty much shouting through th...

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Wolfgang Wright is the author of the comic novel Me and Gepe and the forthcoming science fiction novel Being. His short work has appeared in over forty literary magazines, including Dark Yonder, Oyster River Pages, and Paris Lit Up. He lives in North Dakota.

14.10.2025 23:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Deal by Ellen Davis Sullivan โ€œYouโ€™re not breathing,โ€ my mother said. A voice coach who teaches Suits and Baby MBAs how to speak in public, sheโ€™s an expert on the way nerves shut down air intake. I couldnโ€™t tell her that at that m...

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Sullivanโ€™s stories have appeared in journals including Big Muddy, Moment Magazine and Cherry Tree. Her essay โ€œThe Perfect Height for Kissingโ€ won Columbia Universityโ€™s Non-Fiction Prize and was published in Issue 53 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

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A 30-year cooking career led to moderate renown. Today, after fallout from destructive choices, Jim is in prison preparing meals for fellow incarcerees, writing with wry humor about the care and feeding of those behind bars.

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Untitled Xerox Cut-Out (Squeaky Fromme/Gerald Ford) 1993-94 by Stephen Gibson Printed paper with paper clips and Pencil on paper in artistโ€™s frame Cady Noland American, born 1956 The Museum of Modern Art, New York City Squeaky said she was serious but also having fun...

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09.09.2025 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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things you should know by Kathleen Hellen I should throw it away. Nubbed and frayed from all the cycles. The thrashing and the tumbling.ย  This shabby robe that robs the dignity of my undressing. This effigy that hangs on tatty sleeves. These ...

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Author of 3 poetry collections: Meet Me at the Bottom, The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin, Umbertoโ€™s Night, which won the poetry prize from Washington Writersโ€™ Publishing House. James Still Award, Thomas Merton prize, H.O.W. Journal, Washington Square Review.

28.08.2025 12:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Past Life by Billie Pritchett Before my mother, there had been another woman, Britannia, whom my father loved and married when they were both in their twenties. After a brief courthouse ceremony with three friends as witnesses, th...

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Billie Pritchett is an English professor in the Department of Creative Convergence at Kyungnam University in Changwon, Korea. His work has appeared in Delmarva Review, Washington Square Review, and most recently in Arkana.

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Smoke Break by Jennifer Maritza McCauley So I left Lady for good then got off the bus. It felt right, leaving Lady Prananda. Plus I thought no way sadness is not not not going to happen to this girl right here so I dropped her for good, my s...

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Books: SCAR ON/SCAR OFF, When Trying to Return Home and Kinds of Grace. Fellowships from NEA, Kimbilio, CantoMundo. Heralded by NYT, Kirkus Reviews, Elle, Latinx in Publishing, Ms. Magazine. Fiction editor, Pleiades. Assistant professor U Missouri - Kansas City.

28.07.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wilding by J.E. Robinson wine why my tastes tonight run more for rye or whisky my throat demands that burn fire water which helps me forget my world wines for therapy not for forgetting a night from wine put this mark upon me...

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J. E. Robinson's poem โ€œPanaetiusโ€ appeared in J Journal in Spring 2024 and received a โ€œBest of the Netโ€ nomination. Currently, he enjoys retirement.

15.07.2025 02:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Customer Review of Half-Day Lajes Air Base Historic Sightseeing Tour by Ryan Clark Five Starsโ€”Excellent Tour and driver/guide The road took us into the island where we came across Victory. He held a pointed staff and left footprints long and vehicular. Victory spoke very good Englis...

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A documentary poet who writes using a unique method of homophonic translation. Authored Arizona SB 1070: An Act (Downstate Legacies) and How I Pitched the First Curve (Lit Fest Press), + forthcoming chapbook Suppose / a Presence (Action, Spectacle).

03.07.2025 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Barber Shop by Amrita De Every day, at nine in the morning, Mr. Ghosh got his mustache trimmed while waiting for things to happen. Betel juice dripped from one side of his paan-stained lips, his backside comfortably lodged on...

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Amrita De is a Visiting Research Fellow at Penn State. She specializes in masculinity studies and global south literatures. Creative works have appeared in Cafรฉ Dissensus, Aaduna, Muse India, Cerebrations, Snarl, Barricade, Hong Kong Review.

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New Territories by Nina Ellis Callie landed just after eleven oโ€™clock in the morning. Immigration was easyโ€”the guy glanced at her picture and grinned. Her bag came out third. She had nothing to declare...

www.jjournal.org/post/new-ter... Nina Ellisโ€™s short stories have appeared in Granta, American Chordata, Carve Magazine, The London Magazine, Ambit, 3:AM, the Mays anthology and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Oxford Review of Books and elsewhere.

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Current Issue | J Journal J Journal is a literary magazine featuring fiction, poetry and personal narrative, all quietly justice-themed. Support the literary arts and purchase the latest issue.

www.jjournal.org/current-issue The cartoon voice saying, "I am what I am," sounds simplistic. But we are what we are and like. We like low-to-the ground, less-is-more, tangential routes to justice. Still, in new issue #35, more than real seems possible; possible enough to move toward the fantastic.

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Murmuration of Mind and Tongue by Laurie Lamon how can it be as the mind moves the tongue moves somewhere near the flock a falcon is (the flock loses no information) How can it be...

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Poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Plume, Ploughshares, Innisfree Poetry Journal, The Literary Review, and others. Two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: The Fork Without Hunger; Without Wings. Professor emeritus, Whitworth University.

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I, Labor by Irene Cooper โ€œDeath Sentence: Poetry Consolation IIโ€ is a poem constructed by artificial intelligence algorithms based on the prison writings...

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Wrote feminist noir novel Found, Committal, poet-friendly spy-fy, & spare change, finalist Stafford/Hall Award, poetry. Published in Denver Quarterly, The Feminist Wire, The Rumpus + more. Supports creative writing at regional prison, teaches, editor at Airlie Press.

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The Last Will by Joshua Brorby It came to pass that I was asked to assist the executor of a modest last will and testament. The problem was that I had become intimately...

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Joshua Brorby was born and raised in rural North Dakota. He holds a PhD in nineteenth-century English literature and has taught at institutions in St. Louis; Columbia, MO; Zhuhai, China; and Atlanta, where he currently resides. This story marks his fiction debut.

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Horror by Tim Raymond Our first night in the new house, we hear creaking that sounds a lot like footsteps, but that vanishes before we can really worry...

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A Song for the Putting Away of Childish Things We have packed it away in the dark of the messiest closet of mind to be lost in the wrack of remembrance...

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to bury a curious girl by Amirah Al Wassif When I was younger, I stood on a mountain of pillows with a brave decision to swallow a whole finger. My father insulted me because...

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Where Catfish Once Stood by Paul Stapleton Everyone was antsy, sitting on the front porch, the kids picking at the chipped paint with the toes of their sneakers...

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Paul's fiction has appeared in Aethlon, Ruminate, storySouth, and elsewhere. He won a Pushcart Prize (XXXVII) for his story โ€œThe Fall of Punicea,โ€ which was nominated by the editors of JJournal. He currently teaches English in a public HBCU in North Carolina.

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