Writing is an act of resistance
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National Portrait Gallery
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What Is Truth?
By Wells Burgess Deep in the South, men gather. First among equals, the Kingfish, upstage, and it is only he whose face you see; his minions – that includes me, Markie – have their backs to you. The Boss plays solitaire; the cards slap the table. “Markie,” he says, where we gon’ put that…
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September Together
By Elizabeth Shack Last September, we hiked the forest beside the fog-drenched sea. Followed a swift stream bridged with salmon spawning, returning from gray Pacific homes. Switchbacked beside a waterfall sparkling down steep granite. Emerged into sunlight with a view of lichen-painted rock and the blue-white ice that once sculpted this verdant valley. Is…
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A Woman of Good Manners
By Nikki Blakely It is a universal truth that a man of good fortune must be in want of a wife, and Jayne set her sights on Edward, despite his reputation for being of a most disagreeable character. On their first date, they went to Possum Pond. Jayne had always been told the way…
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Scylla
By Bex Hainsworth A nymph unburdened by beauty is a nightmare. My barnacle flesh scratches against stone as I curl up in my cave, full of octopus cunning; folding many limbs around myself, cruel, content. This was Circe’s gift: to make me a monster, a maneater. The distant roar of Charybdis rocks me to…
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Islands of No Nation
Guam, U.S. colonialism, Puerto Rico, U.S. imperialism, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana islands, Poetry, Ada ArdéreBy Ada Ardére We give them our children to fight in jungles and deserts, we give them our taxes to pave their roads, we give them our land to build their businesses, we give them our coasts to moor their battleships, we give them our waters to test nuclear weapons, and we have received…
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Reputation
TW: SA By Frances Koziar He speaks of his reputation while I think of fates worse than death, his name, when I would gladly give up mine for a good night’s sleep, to see those nightmares shaped like ordinary men slain before their groping hands reach me; he speaks of having a life ruined,…
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REMINDER: Writers Resist Reads this Saturday 28 Jan 2023
Join us on Saturday 28 January at 5:00 pm Pacific for a virtual reading by the contributing creators of the December 2022 issue of Writers Resist. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88356614245?pwd=a1FRMndJYzI3VzE1Ym9yZUU2ODhHdz09 Meeting ID: 883 5661 4245 Passcode: 247349 Read the current issue here. Contributors include: Christina Bagni Lisa Brand Tara Campbell Jacqueline Jules Karen Kilcup Livvy…
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Welcome to Writers Resist, the December 2022 Issue
Lisa Brand, Writers Resist news, Livvy Krakower, Tara Campbell, Renee McClellan, Dotty LeMieux, Jacqueline Jules, William Palmer, Christina Bagni, Holly A. Stovall, December 2022 issue, Karen Kilcup, Writers Resist Reads, Kathleen Kremins, Yvonne Patterson, Stephen Sossaman, Maenad, Samy SwaydIn case you didn’t know Writers Resist celebrates each quarterly issue with a virtual reading, and you are invited to join us for this issue’s gathering. Writers Resist Reads • Saturday 28 January 2023 • 5:00 p.m. PACIFIC Zoom information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88356614245?pwd=a1FRMndJYzI3VzE1Ym9yZUU2ODhHdz09 Meeting ID: 883 5661 4245 Passcode: 247349 In the meantime, we know the world…