Thrilled to see my story published in the latest issue of @gonelawn. gonelawn.net/journal/issue6…
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Brett Pribble
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Brett Pribble
@brettpribble
Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
Orlando, FL Katılım Aralık 2011
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"The intruder is clean—skin smooth, freshly shaved, black hair wet from the shower. He is toweling off in my bedroom while I stand watching from the doorway."
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Read "The Intruder" written by @pimpledrose and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/ydfv2wy4
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"I can’t afford heat, so we stay under the covers to trap the heavy air. We change positions to work up a sweat. Only when we’re about to suffocate do we pull back the blanket and let our hot air escape."
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Read "Precipitation" written by @bestthingaround and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/3p9mratn
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"Leslie Abbott is a high-school sophomore sitting in Geometry class, staring at x’s and y’s and z’s, and thinking about how everything equals something else in the end..."
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Read "The Geometry of Unicorns" written by Melanie Maggard and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/546hwuy9
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"When the last bird goes extinct, Dad calls the 3D Printer Man and pays for me."
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Read "Evie" written by Kim Steutermann Rogers and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/2vkem4fm
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"The doctor promised her father it wouldn’t leave scars following the treatment, but she scratched it raw, and it drew a white spot next to her left eye and another on her forehead she still scratches when anxious."
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Read "What the Body Remembers" written by @DelGeo14 and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1. tinyurl.com/ydejt7dj
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"Lisa cuts strips of the newspapers she collected from the neighbor with the willow tree that blooms pink in the spring, her fingers smearing black, words seeking solace along whorls on her tips and edges."
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Read "Paper Mache" written by @lumchanmfa and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/5aauaypz
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"I used to create a miniature horse, just using the power of my thoughts."
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Read "Over Drinks" written by @andrewbertaina and illustrated by Courtney Burton. tinyurl.com/wpwdd962
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"Because she couldn’t see the model completely and because she was shy and because her pen had leaked..."
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Read "Because" written by Sherrie Flick and illustrated by @brettjbarr666. tinyurl.com/yc2wwkhn
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"True name redacted. But you can be sure his name was something like that, like Brock or Biff or Whit or Trent. Something white. Something rich. Something rapey."
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Read "House Odds" written by Kathryn Kulpa and illustrated by @KaylanStedman. tinyurl.com/mv7n87hm
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"The hairbrush lay on the wooden floor beneath the dressing table in my dead mom’s bedroom in my childhood home, which was up for sale in old Palo Alto."
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Read "The Hairbrush" written by @whirlwindtots and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/er9jyeha
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"Winter came like a polar bear, silent and merciless. At first, flakes pirouetted in the air, delicate as ash, but soon the sky collapsed into duvets of snow, smothering every sound."
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Read "The Simplest Snow Fort" written by David Morgan O'Connor and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/5fy9b2us
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"Discomfort feels comforting. Numbness fatal. He remembered the snake wrapping itself around his body, mouth open looking to be fed. Who isn’t searching for sustenance in these trying times?"
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Read "From a Hospital Bed" written by Alex Gurtis and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/y3f42urb
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"Larry parked the Fiat two houses down from Sally’s Gibsonton bungalow. It was getting dark, and Sally’s neighborhood didn’t have any streetlights. Circus folk didn’t like to draw attention to themselves when they were wintering."
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Read "Another Larry" written by Christopher Ramsey and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/yn75bn7u
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"He looks everywhere for his shadow. It was just there a moment ago, staring back him blankly like it always does. Like it always did."
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Read "Charitable Donation" written by @Kiptain62 and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/2s4ks2m6
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"Laura isn’t sleeping. Sometimes she experiments with pills the doctors prescribe, but they make her absentminded, like the time she called ahead for a table at T-Bones and forgot to show up."
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Read "A Fixed Distance" written by Abbie Barker and illustrated by @BrooksiesBooks. tinyurl.com/3djztu7r
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