Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature

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Fiction

Big Mouth

M.R. Lehman Wiens

Alice enters a Nebraska fair’s marble-mouth contest and finds the courage to name what has been silently haunting her.
Poetry

In Another Life

Dana Wall

“Some loves we live, and some we carry – gentle ghosts that whisper of roads not taken, teaching us that even an unlived love can fill a life with meaning.”
Poetry

Ascending

Xingyu Zhao

“I let my turtle out, its eyes the pallid skin Of the moon, its tiny body heaving across Mountains. It reaches the sea, looks up at me, Foam curdling on…
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Fiction

Boss-Lady

Mike Rusetsky

A newly promoted supervisor manipulates her team with a fabricated crisis, revealing the quiet ruthlessness behind workplace power.
Fiction

Expats

Paul Perilli

American expats in Florence navigate friendship, politics, and belonging as tensions from home follow them abroad.
Interviews

The Image That Haunts the Story: A Conversation with Florian Gantner

Sheila Rexho

An interview with Austrian novelist Florian Gantner on haunting images, language, mistrust, and why literature must trust the intelligence of its readers.
Poetry

Memory

Mark A Michaels

Three elegiac poems trace abandonment, inheritance, and fragile resilience through myth, memory, and the natural world.
Poetry

Flowers

Harriet Ribot

A reflective collection of poems and prose tracing first love, storm-lit highways, winter journeys, and the quiet claiming of self through writing.
Fiction

The Seed that Cracks the Earth

Susan E Lloy

A woman reenters the dating world after decades alone, only to discover that like a seed, she can grow only into herself.