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A Flash Fiction by Abby Asmuth At the sound of her third alarm – which she put across the room so she had to get up to turn it off – Cassidy Forrester finally rolled out of bed. Groggily, she trudged across her bedroom and slapped the alarm off. Once the noise had stopped, a little voice […]
A Short Story by Eric Knowlson The bedroom walls were adorned with loud punk-rock posters. The vanity on the right held a large mirror that sat between an impressive collection of make-up. The mirror reflected a blackened spoon, lighter and a few orange syringes. A fan buzzed in the corner dousing Setti and Easton with […]
A Short Story by Joe Phipps Today I ran errands. I usually run the errands and my wife usually does the chores, except for cooking. She doesn’t run errands because she believes that, if one commutes to work like she does, it is bad luck to stray from one’s established route for any reason. She […]
A Poem by Rex Wilder Since I was locked up and the key dangled Like a body from each nurse’s neck, This gray matter has lost the privilege of shades And the world is black and white. Either I was fucked or it’s just a phase. Either you climb from the wreck Or you burn […]
A Prose Poem by Sabrina Bustamante I want to write about history. I want to stop fearing genre, and I want time to collapse so that I can write about the past while writing about myself. I want to be less narcissistic. I want to make sweeping statements about causation, and I want to be […]
A Flash Fiction by Julie Benesh Publish or perish. Last year, quarantining, should have been the perfect time to work on my research and avoid the fate of the Permanent Visitor. But working at home during quarantine, I got so anxious and distracted, everything blurring into mush. Sometimes you have to …get away. Business people […]
A Flash Fiction by Ronald McGuire I looked up from my book, then looked again after a pause, and that’s when I saw him walking down the sidewalk. I turned back to my book, hiding shame from some unknown witness. Yes, I felt ashamed to want him. But it was more than that. I felt […]
Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with A Poem by Effie Pasagiannis I like the way we are together now –compatriots, companions,clandestine lovers exchanging recipes,searching for yeast to create Kneading and breaking breadin doughy goodness,we are shattering the silence of our fastletting our buttered selves slipthrough gloved handsinto a new kind of comforting Is […]
Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with A Poem by Jonathan Koven Something blossoming, a star!For all I see, in stolid smokeand shadow, weavesuniverses all their own. When I wake from a dream within a dream,doctors scale my reach,whispering, to peelthe sky’s clouds like petals. I love you, I love you not, until only […]
Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with A Poem by W. F. Althaus We walked into this barA bit too fancy for four dudesLooking to put a couple awayBefore watching Mad Max in IMAXBut a beer’s a beer, right? Dark-stained hardwood throughoutNot even a scuff on the floorThe bartenders and waitressWear black slacks and […]
Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with A Poem by Michael Lee Johnson I’m a juice box girl,squeeze me, play melike an accordion,box-shaped, but gagged edges.Breathe me inside out,I’m nude, fruity, fractured,strawberry melon,nightshade wine.Chicago, 3:00 a.m.somewhere strandedsomeone’s balconymemories undefined,you will find me therestretched naked, doingthe Electric Slide,taking morning selfiesupward morning into the sunthen in […]
Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with A Poem by Kelsey Erin Shipman I’ll say to youwhat no one ever did:This is not your fault. Yes, you pocketed those Tic Tacs whileyour mother spoke with the cashier,and you let slip a lie about your father’sfortune to those kids at school. And when your little […]
Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with A Poem by David Rogers I appeared on Lakeshore Michigan naked and pureBorne on a golden palanquin by an obedient hordeOf zebra mussels, mumbling their hymn of praise. Found by South Side maenads, dancing at night inEmpty lots of junk, my slight ethereal size seized themTo rush […]
Join The Dillydoun Review in celebrating National Poetry Month with A Poem by Nathan Robert Cox She heard him sing by the water,Not knowing that the songs he sang were his own;He sang of the river, its torments, its dark allure;And what he sang came to pass. These daysNo one dares say his name:That boy who drowned,That […]
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
