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Welcome to Writers Resist the Winter 2025 Issue

Whether you’re still in recovery or planning your resistance against the incoming regime, there’s plenty of common ground in this the Winter 2025 issue of Writers Resist. Enjoy the art, poetry and prose and then join us for our virtual Writers Resist Reads, Saturday 15 February 2025, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific. Just email for the Zoom link: writersresist@gmail.com.

In this issue:

Mary Brancaccio “This little piece of heaven

Salena Casha “In This Version, Cancer Is a Woman

Karen Crawford “You Don’t Run

Jennifer Freed “Upon Learning, in a Report on the Footage of a Sheriff’s Deputy Shooting Sonya Massey to Death in Her Kitchen, of Massey’s First Words to the Deputy

Jennifer Karp “Postcards from the Valley of the Moon

Flavian Mark Lupinetti “Trigger Warning

M.R. Mandell “Gen X Girls Ghazal

Melissa McEver Huckabay “Why I Fight for Texas Even Though Everyone Says We Should Move

Livia Meneghin “What should be free

Ria Raj “kaala; kala

Ash Reynolds “Uprooted/Planted

Sheree Shatsky “Judged

Beulah Vega “About Those Census Checkboxes

Laura Grace Weldon “Election Day Facebook Exchange

Amritha York “mmiwg


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