Tag: New Limestone Review
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Someone Simple and Kind
Gurney Norman Prize for Fiction: 1st Place I almost felt grateful for the experience of being somebody’s mistress, Sylvia rolling off of me and springing up from my mattress around 5:30p.m. the afternoons I got to see her, the working day over. It made me feel great kinship with Mrs. Wilson from Gatsby, and I…
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Rodulfo González #15
color me black with grackle feathers / after the sunset showers of August / when I’m dusting the smell of fresh bread Poetry by Elidio la Torre Lagares
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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…