Sara McKinney is Querying

A note: I am an American Jew. I am the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. My husband is Israeli. My rejection of the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians comes directly from my history, my Jewishness, my love for my husband and his family.

"I’m going to run, I want to say, not looking at Avi, but out over the scrub of rocks and olives." —Sara McKinney, "Scapegoat" Read here: mastersreview.com/new-voices-sca…

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New from The Milton Review, a book review of Michael Cavanagh's Paradise Lost: A Primer by Sara McKinney! Read it now: themiltonreview.com/current-issue/…

NEW Poetry @ The Milton Review: "I Hoped for Just a Moment" by Dillon Clark Read it now! themiltonreview.com/current-issue/…

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

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An axe, a guillotine, a willing tribunal? For our Regicide issue, we’re looking for writing that goes beyond “off with his head!” Send us your popular uprisings, your poetic justice, your revolutionary futures, and your most damning allegations.

Free Mahmoud Khalil. This is straight out of the fascist playbook. Criminalizing dissent is an assault on our First Amendment and freedom of speech. Revoking someone’s green card for expressing their political opinion is illegal. Protesting genocide is not a crime.

Every single Jew who supports deporting green card holders for political support is a fucking Shanda who has forgotten our history. This will always come for us

Just saw someone saying using the em-dash is a sign of something being written by AI, because real people rarely use it. This is terrible news for everyone like me who has an unhealthy emotional attachment to the em-dash.

If bears are so dangerous then explain this

"I never believed / that Christ struck people down / like his old testament father / turning wives into salt." Allison Carter's "Whore and Madonna" READ: buff.ly/4esU8bQ

"I want to gaze longingly into his eyes… His eyes are a murky brown, not green like he wrote in his dating profile. The whites of his eyes are bloodshot. Is he stoned?" New @ The Milton Review, "Want" READ: buff.ly/4evxG1C

Fresh flash fiction from Danielle Connolly-Graham "The American Pinot" READ IT HERE: buff.ly/4fqrKZ0

Your yearly reminder that Columbus was a violent militant Catholic obsessed with forced conversion & he treated indigenous people and his own men so brutally he was sent back to Spain in chains. Do not excuse his barbarity by saying he “was a man of his time.”

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October 7th was a tragedy, a war crime, a horrific day for Israel & Israelis. Everything that's happened since has been a tragedy, a series of war crimes, & horrific weeks & months, for Gaza, the West Bank, & now for Lebanon. Civilians should be off-limits. Always. Everywhere.

All I have today is pain for the Israelis killed on 10/7, the hostages held for the past year, the terror unleashed on this day for Gaza, the generational trauma of Jews & Palestinians, the conditions that led to refugees in 1945 and the 75 yrs of occupation for Palestinians

This whole industry is built on a foundation of grift. It’s pay to play. I’ve seen $35 submission fees for contests, & some publications won’t even take the time to reject you. But you’re coming after a small mag whose editor pays contributors out of their pocket? Be so for real