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Mcquitty
April 11, 2025  |  By . In Fiction, Flash Fiction

Fiction: McQuitty by Ray Greenblatt

The poetry reading had been going well. This annual Philly event drew a sizable crowd, but this year—for unexplained reasons—the hall was jammed. Crammed in the third row, at the break I stood to stretch and look around. McQuitty, one of our greatest local poets, was sitting at the end of the last row. I […]

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April 10, 2025  |  By . In Online Content, Poetry

Poetry: both by Jeff Hartnett

both how wrong the aloneness of my Father’s body, slumped in the reverberant too-small bath. and Mother, cupping His head, mapped with violent-violet scans, explorations of hope, reduced, a crown of purple thorns, a porcelain throne, draped in linen terrycloth. damn God! he’s unskinned, out of his shell of Fatherness, adrift, washed into the sea, […]

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April 8, 2025  |  By . In Fiction, Novellas

Fiction: Vanessa Hoffman’s Conversations on Life and Living and Death and Dying: Section Six Part One by Victor Kreuiter

Lauren Hoffman walked into her daughter’s room, dragged a chair next to the bed, dropped her purse beside the chair and sat. Vanessa was lying on her side, pillows at her back, a pillow between her calves, two under her neck and head. Her hands were under the covers and the covers were pulled up […]

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March 24, 2025  |  By . In Fiction, Novellas, Online Content

Fiction: Vanessa Hoffman’s Conversations on Life and Living and Death and Dying: Section Five by Victor Kreuiter

Seventeen was grim. There would be weeks when the scramble looked to be paying off. She could breathe easier. Her limbs felt like they belonged to her again. She would get chipper and feel confident that she had some control over her life and her health. She’d look ahead, she’d think ahead and plan ahead […]

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