Issue 18 Nonfiction
Listen to an Excerpt The Painting My boys are four and two the summer my mother throws out one of her paintings. It is a scene of a lake and trees, surrounded by a handmade frame she’d crafted from...
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What Gretel Knows Gretel is a six-year-old beagle and the keeper of my secrets. Sam, for instance. She smelled him on my hands and face, even after I’d washed up. Or maybe it was my step that tipped...
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We Have Tried To Be From Here, But We Cannot Listen to the Poem Despite all the fantasy Iowa was just an interstate coated in ice. 16-wheelers abandoned in fields, unearthly sparkle of 24-hour...
View ArticlePublication of Eighteenth Issue and Call for Submissions
Happy 2012 from damselfly press. We were pleased by the varied interpretations of our wintering theme that were submitted. As you will notice in the well crafted fiction, nonfiction and poetry...
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