Tag: New Limestone Review
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40 Below
lemon bits float / like a slow / snowfall. I leave / a pile of sunflower seeds / on the sidewalk / a carrot on the stoop. Poetry by Ryan Vine
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Heliographs
Gurney Norman Prize for Fiction: 2nd Place By then you had already moved on, eager to go out into the sun-spilled city, to see all the spaces across which we’d moved. Trace a psychic map that would make sense to no one but us. Tracking our ghosts here, to this moment of July. Fiction by…
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Name Your Bird Without A Gun: a Tarot-romance-in-verse
Picture Liberty spinning so fast that (like the blades of an electric fan) her arms / disappear. An except from Emily Carr’s novel-in-verse forthcoming from Spork Press in October 2019
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Debut
Gurney Norman Prize for Fiction: 3rd Place There was an inscription near the front. Perfect cursive, a date from a long time ago. “To Opal. I’m sorry I’m so repulsive. Love, Archie.” Not all of them had inscriptions but they all had the name, “Opal Atwood” on the back cover in thick permanent marker. Opal…
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Ouroboros
Every name I pull out of my hair is a soft / blow to the spine, decibels for Newtons. Poetry by Hannah Seo
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Cursed
She fixed her attention on that twitching dime-sized bit of skin, and shut everything else out. A large volcano she had not even known was active was right now erupting north of Manila, sending harshly blinding ash-fall over the capital. Fiction by Noelle Q. de Jesus
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Dear Francine du Plessix Gray
“I’m said to be a very gifted analysand,” you humble-bragged in your interview, quite elegantly. I used to be so efficient with my therapist’s time, but the older I get, the more agile I become at skirting the stuff that makes me ugly-cry. Creative Nonfiction by Candace Walsh
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Aubade for an Alcoholic’s Son
straight, gridded teeth / bit down, / asked me to promise I’ll never / go back to sleep Poetry by Megan DeMatteo