Beyond this home, is another home, with another word written on its walls. And that word is Azadi.
Ifreen Raveen SmokeLong Quarterly

Image after image of long, lean young men with shaven bodies and toothy smiles. Not every boy was invited to this room…
Great story from Thomas Kearney Milk Candy Review 👇🏽

A disquiet, vast, and shapeless, blooms inside me. The face in the mirror accuses me......
Congratulations, Sara! Love this story🧡🧡

It was monsoon–it rained cats and dogs again and this time, the Mayor said, “aren’t we lucky it’s not raining elephants or lions?”
Enjoyed this story so much! Mixed Bag hex

This is a must read. Amy Butcher Dinty W. Moore👇

..yeah, those creamy lines of liquid dripping from his chin and his eely tongue swiping over them like contrails disappearing in the sky..
a stunning winner! Tara Isabel Zambrano American Literary Review 👇👇

The beauty of sports and writing was their similarity. Both require patience, discipline, dedication, and humility….
Love this from Swetha Amit SugarSugarSalt Magazine 👇🏽👇🏽

Ambition expected in a man is unseemly in a woman …fantastic story by CB Anderson Electric Literature

How Clara Schumann Got Her Groove Back electricliterature.com/river-love-by-… via @electriclit

Gentle touch reverberated in my body as if I were a child again, lying next to our dog….

I love this flash essay by Rachel Furey (Rachel Furey) via Short Reads. short-reads.org/in-the-absence…

This collection of previously published writing by Shannon Kenny earned $50 in MPTSP V9 and your previously published stories could earn $50 too! We also have upcoming stories by Melissa Llanes Brownlee Catherine O'Brien Swetha Amit and Debbie Robson and existing stories by Koss (Insta: @koss_singular)…

My longings are like the sparkling diamonds… this is beautiful! Sreelekha Chatterjee Suburban Witchcraft Magazine . Thanks for sharing, Jenny Wong 👇🏽

…the edifices of Work and House and Car and Dog would be pulled down as easily as this box was flattened….this is excellent, Sumitra (short i, as in admit) (she/her) Cody Sexton 👇🏽👇🏽

A herd of gorgeous gazelles chants, 'Indian elephant!' as I pass by. … terrific piece from Nina Miller Five Minutes 👇🏽👇🏽

ICYMI-FBomb zoom with Francine Witte, Paul Beckman, SaraS, @Jhh, @JEK_writer, Jeff Burd, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Cindy Rosmus, Bill Merklee 🇺🇦, Louella Lester, Sudha Balagopal, and Annie Bien. Time stamps in description.
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….memories of when life was simpler. Sweeter. When I didn’t feel pulled in a million different directions. When my emotions didn’t feel like they’d been wrung out…. Such a poignant story from Laura Besley NorthernGravy 👇🏽👇🏽

...maybe she would get out there and find love again, remove herself from that burr-buried hell, too, and maybe, just maybe, she would kiss a girl and found that she liked it....
Powerful work from Chloe Chun Seim Milk Candy Review 👇👇

She took my hand in her own. She said what she had waited for years to say to me. Love!
Ravi Mangla Wigleaf

…dead ladybugs, a carpet of scarlet desiccated bodies, a tapestry of leftovers…the descriptions in this piece! Elena Zhang Centaur Lit 👇🏽

I feel like I should throw it out, or scratch away its silver…
That ending! Scott Garson Centaur Lit 👇🏽👇🏽

Treat your throat infection with prayers and an abundance of chai. …
Another awesome piece by Tara Isabel Zambrano! Centaur Lit 👇🏽