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Issue Fourteen - Angie Macri — Empty House Press

Day 12: “Child’s Play” by Angie Macri in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social. LOVE LOVE LOVE the structure of this poem! www.emptyhousepress.com/issue-fourte...

Issue Fourteen - Jennifer Saunders — Empty House Press

"[...] engineering / meets art in the cross of cap and girt, perfect interval / of line and space." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Maggie Doyle — Empty House Press

"In the nettled fields of my mother’s memory, she saw them, / tawny stalkers slipping through the long grass, calling / shy lovers in the late glow of summer nights." — Maggie Doyle in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Regina Rae Weiss — Empty House Press

"It was an old part of the boneyard, people with eighteenth and nineteenth-century surnames: Barnabus, Mutterer, Winthrop, Cornelius." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Anne Ryland — Empty House Press

"The bothy has two windows, thick walls, a white / my mother would deem spotless, at a glimpse." — Anne Ryland in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Hanna Han — Empty House Press

"I remember breaking the dry pods with you, / seeds spilling into my palm / like small promises for spring." — Hanna Han in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Polina Kouzminova — Empty House Press

"We start with berries at / their dacha, red fruit sweet, staining my shirt; / the kettle boiling on open fire, black rye bread, / my wooden toys." — Polina Kouzminova in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Delighted to see my short story Communion in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social‬ with works that “trace how #time gathers quietly in stairwells & #gardens, pastures and cemeteries. . . measured not only in hours & years, but also by glances, absences, & the enduring weight of #memory.” shorturl.at/LExnq

Issue Fourteen - Rachel St. Ours — Empty House Press

"The tall grass hides us, she and I. We lie on bath towels in our bikinis because we can’t go to the beach." — Rachel St. Ours in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Luca D'Anselmi — Empty House Press

"The soot chute emptied from the fireplace hatch, / from the room of living, down to a door, / thick, cast-iron [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi in EHP Issue Fourteen
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A black and white drawing of a house with windows shuttered. Text above: Empty House Press is on an extended hiatus. Text below: The doors are closed but not locked. We'll be back.

Dear Housemates: Submissions are currently closed as we take an extended hiatus. Thank you for your support, your stories, and your patience. We'll return when it's time to open the door again. Until then—thank you, truly 🏠✨

Issue Fourteen - Pippa Little — Empty House Press

"When a snell wind birls in from the north / our kettle spits white sparks on the hob / and the hearth booms [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Happy to have my poem "Abandoned Railroad Trestle Bridge, Oregon" up at Empty House Press today.

Issue Fourteen - Angie Macri — Empty House Press

"Sixty years tore like child’s play / cracking the sky. Black on its crown, / its roots held the ground." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Jennifer Saunders — Empty House Press

"Less abandoned than re-imagined. / Splay of moss and green lichen, / leafy and curving, ornaments the posts / and sway braces." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Maggie Doyle — Empty House Press

"On wing-swept nights in the low meadow, I hear them, / corncrake spirits rasping, haunting pastures lost [...]" — Maggie Doyle, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Regina Rae Weiss — Empty House Press

"Once, as a young woman half asleep in a friend’s mountain yard tracing the stars, she’d been approached by a skunk in the dark, watched in stillness as it floated across the grass..." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Anne Ryland — Empty House Press

"She trusts skirts, shorts, jumpers, pyjamas to a thrawn sun: / her laundering-love, no, her love-laundering, / the ceremony of releasing them to billow and run and fly." — Anne Ryland, EHP Issue Fourteen,
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Issue Fourteen - Hanna Han — Empty House Press

"In the kitchen once, / you taught me to knead dough, / pressing it firm yet gentle. / 'Patience, you said, / 'Patience is the secret.'" — Hanna Han, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Polina Kouzminova — Empty House Press

"Potato fields stretch for miles, indented with footprints; / fire crackles in the distance, little homes dispersed / over the valley." — Polina Kouzminova, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Rachel St. Ours — Empty House Press

"Later still, when I hear her latch open and the sound of her legs shifting over the ledge, I feel betrayed. 'Where are you going?' I ask. 'Out,' says her cat voice." — Rachel St. Ours, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Luca D'Anselmi — Empty House Press

"We knew better / than to harrow farther back into the cold / where the soot grew slimy, icier and wetter, / not thinking how it would be to grow old / in that deep [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Pippa Little — Empty House Press

"this house rocks like a ship, / creaks and calls, and the corbies caw, lost souls / crying down the chimney [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Angie Macri — Empty House Press

"To get a reckoning of time, / I counted the rings of the oak / after it was cut in sections / like a spine." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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✨ISSUE FOURTEEN IS HERE!✨
FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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March 2025 Ten stories picked by Sumitra Singam

This month's #Mondettes picked by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

⚡️Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Sumitra made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing

mondettes.substack.com/p/march-2025

Issue Thirteen - Jun Ying Wen — Empty House Press

‘…there is room for it—voicemails, our clothes limp on the drying rack, the starchiness of yesterday. One time you ran to the top of a building just to convince someone into tomorrow.’

Oh wow! Such beauty from Jun Ying Wen in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social☀️

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ICYMI: We are open for submissions! We still have some room before we reach our 500 sub limit, and we'd love to read your work 🏠💕

Some Notes on Neck Ties — Michael Dean Clark A quick set of thoughts on my latest essay, “Randy’s Half Hitch.” I mentioned on socials the day it came out that it was the first thing I found myself capable of writing after my dad passed away. Tha...

A couple weeks back I had a fairly personal essay published over at @emptyhousepress.bsky.social and I’ve wanted to share bit of where it came from. I finally had a chance to commit some ideas to the blog about it. You can check those out here: michaeldeanclark.com/blog-1/some-...

Enjoyed this poem by Katie Moino from this issue ❤️