Scott Frink

We’re excited to share 5 new pieces now live:

📖 Finally, Something — Kate Tell
✍️ Knives — Eric Chiles
📖 Comrades — Rose Shrader
✍️ Lost or Stolen or Strayed — Deb Blenkhorn
✍️ As You Are About to Find Out — R. Gerry Fabian

Read them here 👉 thebrokenspinejournal.com

🌿 New work just published in The Broken Spine Journal!

✨ Gerard Sarnat — Ger After Words
✨ Scott Sharpe — The Babylon Project
✨ Huina Zheng — The Tree
✨ Barry Garelick — Bonita in 1973

Discover fresh voices + powerful stories:
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com

✨ New on The Broken Spine Journal ✨
Acclaimed poet Jason Ryberg brings "The Ocean Floor of My Life" & "Morning Walks Through the Cemetery" — vivid, unflinching portraits of lived experience.

📖 Read:
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New at The Broken Spine Journal:
• “The Ocean Floor of My Life” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
• “Morning Walks Through the Cemetery” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
• “But I Am Not A Ghost” — Paul Smith thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/b...

📢 The Broken Spine Journal is seeking poetry, short fiction, prose & multimedia that’s raw, real & unfiltered — straight from lived experience.

Submit: thebrokenspinejournal.com
📩 thebrokenspinejournal@gmail.com
📬 P.O. Box 101 Ledyard, CT 06339
📱 860-323-3671

I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned,…

Taking on the plight of angels
with black halos—
one foot in the grave,
but I still have two hands to pray.

From I Won’t Paint You Flowers by Scott Jordan Frink—
a chapbook for those who've lived through the silence.

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The Broken Spine Journal is live.

We publish raw, unfiltered writing from lived experience mental illness, addiction, grief, trauma, survival. No polish, no pretense just truth.

Check out the site, share the mission, help us amplify unheard voices.
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I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned,…

🖤 My chapbook is out now.
I Won’t Paint You Flowers
isn’t pretty—it’s real.
It’s pain, survival, and truth.

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The Broken Spine Journal | Literary Journal for Unheard Voices A literary journal for unheard voices—publishing raw, unfiltered work that speaks truth, defies polish, and dares to be real.

🖤 The Broken Spine Journal
Raw work from the unheard—poetry, essays, art, truth.
No gatekeeping. Just voice.

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Rosemary’s Baby by Scott Jordan Frink | redrosethorns publications | empowerment Discover a powerful poem on self-empowerment in 'Rosemary’s Baby'. Uncover the raw, emotional journey of self-discovery and acceptance. redrosethorns publishes writing centred around mental health,...

🖤 Grateful to have three poems featured in Red Rose Thorns Journal:

— Rosemary’s Baby
— Broken Bike
— Web of the Storm

Read them here:
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/rosemary-s-baby
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/broken-bike
🔗 redrosethorns.com/post/web-of-the-storm

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We’re thrilled to share the first three pieces in our new Voices section! 🎉

✨ “Shattered Into Dust” by Millie
🔥 “Dead Inside” by David Ashley
💫 “No Erasing” by Hildae

Each of these poems offers a raw, real, and unapologetically honest perspective—exactly what we’re all about.

📬 New Submission Methods! 📱

We’ve added more ways to share your voice.

✉️ Mail submissions to:
The Broken Spine Journal
P.O. Box 101
Ledyard, CT 06339
(Handwritten or typed welcome!)

📞 Call or Text:
860-323-3671
Send poems or prose by text, or leave a voicemail with your name for follow-up.

I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned,…

Discover my debut chapbook! You can purchase it at [Bottlecap Press](bottlecap.press/products/iwo...). If you enjoy it, please consider sharing the link with others who might be interested. Thank you for your support!

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I Won't Paint You Flowers, by Scott Jordan Frink Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. I Won’t Paint You Flowers is a collection of poetry that refuses to romanticize suffering. Instead, it drags pain into the light unadorned, unedite...

My debut chapbook I Won’t Paint You Flowers is out now via Bottlecap Press.

Proceeds help fund @BrokenSpineJrnl—a journal for raw, unfiltered voices from recovery, shelters, and the unheard.

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Literary Journal for Unheard Voices | The Broken Spine Journal A literary journal for unheard voices—publishing raw, unfiltered work that speaks truth, defies polish, and dares to be real.

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Literary Journal for Unheard Voices | The Broken Spine Journal A literary journal for unheard voices—publishing raw, unfiltered work that speaks truth, defies polish, and dares to be real.

Welcome to The Broken Spine Journal.
We publish raw voices, unfiltered truth, and poetry that bleeds.
If you’ve lived it, write it.
Submissions are open.
🔗 thebrokenspinejournal.com
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