Give the gift of resistance. Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018 What readers are saying … “Yep, I might read the book. Pretty cover. Mysterious eyes. What, honey? What did Sean Hannity say? Oops, nope, wouldn’t touch that book with a ten-foot alligator. Thing of the devil.” –MAGAgirl, Amazon Top-10,000 reviewer “Everyone knows Marchant and Gressitt are […]
By Melissa Reeser Poulin A week before Trump’s inauguration, I began bleeding, miscarrying a baby just shy of ten weeks—my daughter’s little brother or sister. While women marched on Washington and in my city’s streets, I huddled in bed, losing this new life and the last of my false impressions of my country. I wanted […]
By D.A. Gray The focus on the yellow sign, dwarfing its black letters, allows us to move on – to return to our regularly programmed night of silence. For a day the gold box burns in the mind, the darker letters WAFFLE HOUSE hang like ash. A tragedy happened, someone says, then turns the channel. […]
By Alex Penland He had a reason for his name: “The Great” Now buried in the Valley of the Kings— Statues and treasures, all of which abate Behind the wheel of fate that spins and sings And has four thousand years beneath it now! Yet Ozymandias somehow persists— Face on our screens, obscuring ancient snow, […]
By Marvin Lurie It sensitizes certain nerve endings. You can see and hear what many can’t. Your training begins young, the neighbor who won’t let her daughter play with you, taunts and shoves in the playground. You are woven an invisible garment act by act, word by word. to wear for life. It has a […]
A ghazal by Shawn Aveningo Sanders Step on a crack; you’ll break your mother’s back. Cross the border at midnight; they call you wetback. Pick the apples, the nuts, the oranges from trees, up down up down up down—such a strong back! Share stories by the fire in your native tongue, how it stirs […]
