dan bevacqua

Dan’s novel molly bit will be released by simon and schuster in 2020. His short stories have appeared in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, the New Orleans Review, Tweed’s: A Magazine of Literature and Art, and The Literary Review, among others. Awst Press published a chapbook in 2015. His short story “The Human Variable” was included in Best American Mystery Stories 2017. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of The Arts, he is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Western New England University.

 

Christine Crutchfield

Author of How to Catch a Wild Coyote (read an interview about it from Green Mountain Review).

Flash Fiction from Christy at Tinhouse.com

Writing Advice:  “Stop planning what you’re going to write, and start writing.”

Janet Bowdan

The Year

When you did not come for dinner, I ate leftovers for days.  When you missed dessert, I finished all the strawberries.  When you did not notice me, I walked four miles up hill past you and into Florence and five miles the other way.  When you did not like my dress, I wore it with gray silk shoes instead of gold ones.  When you did not see my car had sunk into a snowdrift at the turn of your driveway, I took the shovel off your porch and dug myself out.  When you sent back my poems, I made them into earrings and wore them to work.  When you refused to appear at the reunion, I went to the dentist who showed me X-rays of my teeth.  When you did not tell me you would be in town, I met you on Main Street on the way to the library.  While you had dinner with me, I walked past the window and looked in.  You were not there.

(publication credits: Denver Quarterly, republished in Poetry Daily & Best American Poetry 2000).)