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Word Salad To Enter Hiatus Until End of May
We’re just getting off the ground again here on Word Salad, first with the seven-part short fiction series “Submerged.” If you’re interested in other works, check out another s… more →
Word Salad
Word Salad To Enter Hiatus Until End of May
wrote 1 week ago: We’re just getting off the ground again here on Word Salad, first with the seven-part short fi … more →
Submerged: Part Seven (Fin)
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wrote 1 week ago: General Bates let us sleep in a tent with Jaime, though we used our own blankets. The summer air clu … more →
Submerged: Part Six
wrote 1 week ago: The truck woke me, its trembling motor roaring in my sleep. Again, the underwater dreams, those luci … more →
Submerged: Part Five
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wrote 1 week ago: 2156 Corn. Rice. Apple. Hemp. Soybeans. The seeds from some of America’s greatest agricu … more →
Submerged: Part Four
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wrote 1 week ago: {Start at the Beginning} 2156 I clawed through the water, sinking only ten feet beneath the surface … more →
Submerged: Part Three
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wrote 1 week ago: {Part 1} {Part 2} 2156 When it began raining, we brought buckets, pots, Tupperware, flower va … more →
Submerged: Part Two
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wrote 1 week ago: {Read Part One Here} 2156 “Twenty-seven grams of copper wire,” Ethan told me, sliding th … more →
Submerged: Part One
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wrote 1 week ago: 2156 Through the greenish glass of the goggles, the houses no longer looked like houses, only rotten … more →
Poem: "Sacred"
wrote 2 weeks ago: I could warn you that this poem contains language But every poem does. Don’t be fooled by the … more →
"A Savage Yawp" at Easy Bay Meeting House
wrote 3 weeks ago: “A Savage Yawp” happens to be the first poem I ever published (in the 2011 Poetry Matter … more →
"Sea King"
wrote 2 months ago: You are King of the Sea, I said and I King of the Sky. Don’t you see me, see my wings? See how … more →
Poem: Sob Stories
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wrote 2 months ago: Sometimes, I feel my soul forgets its immortality and I try pouring concrete into my chest to make m … more →
The Case for "Drug Safety Education" Reform in Public Schools
wrote 2 months ago: Source: http://addictionblog.org/tag/addiction-prevention/page/2/ {The statements expressed in this … more →
Memoir: Insert Grandiose Subtitle Here (Part II)
wrote 3 months ago: {Part I} My mother’s agent crossed her legs and smoothed her skirt, placing the manuscript del … more →
A New Prime Is Found!
wrote 3 months ago: Last Wednesday, a new prime number was discovered, that prime number being 257,885,161 – 1. That is, … more →
The Poet Inside
wrote 3 months ago: You wake up, your chest bursting open your ribcage splayed across your bed, bleeding unto the mornin … more →
Memoir: Insert Grandiose Subtitle Here (Part I)
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wrote 3 months ago: A few days ago, my brother threw a vintage typewriter from the second floor window of the public lib … more →
Absurd and Exciting Short Fiction Coming to "Word Salad"
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wrote 3 months ago: In the past few months, I have culled “buzzwords” from the national conversation, if the … more →
when the sea mangles my soul
wrote 3 months ago: When the sea mangles my soul when I study its current nightly I want to write poems but the lines re … more →
