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Winter Splinter December 4 (Sara Etgen-Baker "CHRISTMAS WITHOUT TINY")
The sun had set; pale winter stars filled the sky; and snowflakes swirled slowly blanketing the neighborhood streets. A Yule log crackled in the fireplace, MORE
Winter Splinter December 3 (Martha Ellen "You Called Me Momma")
Last night I dreamt of you my lost
child now grown. We were on
a long night journey. Cold. MORE
December 2 (Priscille Nyeck "To My Friend") My Christmas vacations
I'll spend them at Grandma's MORE
December 1 (Bill Nevins "Christmas...")
You, this morning, as the light seeped in,
stood by that crack beneath our door MORE
Winter Splinter November 30 (Peter Newall "Winter in...") Leszek had been awake since before dawn. He didn’t want to be; he’d been out drinking last night with some university classmates, and he’d rather have slept it off. MORE
Winter Splinter November 29 (Tulip Chowdbury "Winter Nights")
My guitar is silent like the hushed snow land outside
while I wait for you to knock on my door. MORE
Nov. 28 Winter Splinter Day 1 (Jill Hand "One Thanksgiving.") One Thanksgiving, my mother made a turkey out of Spam... MORE
November 26. Where do great writers live? On MaysPublishing.com. MORE
November 25 Winter Splinter, our latest web-based anthology starts Thanksgiving Day, November 28. Each day through the end of the year, we'll publish season-themed works by writers from around the world. SEE ANTHOLOGIES
November 24 (Pete Adler "Big Hair...") backstage with her teenage idol
minor characters emerge
obsessed with the ocean MORE
(Juan Perez) (November 23) Why did the ghost burn the toast?
So many theories on how this went down
Some of them funny like a nose on a clown MORE
November 22 (Annie Huckabee "Random")“Cucumber martini, Titos, and one Turks Head, please.”
It’s the usual drink order here at the Shelf Life Swim Up Bar in the Caribbean... READ THE REST
November 20 (Robin Carstensen "Prizefighter...) No. 15
Dear Search Committee for English Faculty at Midwest Prairie University:
I am a swinger. I can swing from one vine to another all day long, on and on MORE
November 19 (Jennifer Florence "Today Was...")Today was a high gravity day -- very high gravity.
If I had to hazard a guess, I would say today's gravity was at least 19.394 m/s2 in most of my house MORE
November 17 (John Meza "At Times...") At times, I feel insufficient
Like not enough water
For a plant
Not enough oxygen to sustain me MORE
November 18 (Alan Berecka "note to...") the next time the universe and time conspire
to bring you back to work in Waco at that library
run by that maniacal director with an iron fist MORE
November 17 (F.E.I. "Super Singularity" from CCW2023) At his retirement party, I was told by the affable man that I cried all the way from Chicago to Corpus, and my mother had asked if he would like to hold the bottle for me MORE
November 16 (Emma Helene Guerra "Tooth Decay" I can feel my teeth rotting inside my mouth.
Brown-grey cavities jutting out in mangled bone
piercing my gums. MORE
November 15 (Christian Garduno "Montana Jake") Clenching his teeth
Montana Jake took an uppercut swing
and nailed The Trapper squarely MORE