"“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, web-winged and furious.”
― Sylvia Plath
― Sylvia Plath
NOVEMBER
NONFICTION & PROSE POETRY
SUMMITING ON THANKSGIVING DAY
WILLIAM DORESKI
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High above the village where radio and cell phone towers stab at the cold light I meet a man so fluffed in down he can’t speak but stares at me as if considering joining another species. I want to greet him, but the words swab the back of my throat and set me coughing. When I recover my proper flow, he’s gone. Maybe into the hemlock woods crowning the summit. Maybe down the trail toward Holt and Burton Peaks. Maybe he wasn’t there but was the cast-off of my shadow, cast by a conflicted holiday glare.
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KEY CHANGES
MEG FREER
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Left ear for facts, right ear for creative fancy, it is said. At the edge of the woodland are balsam and clover, sage and lavender, and ginger-coloured bees who buzz in the key of A. In the deep of the marshland, low B-flat inhabits the air. Alligators bellow, angry flies buzz in the key of F.
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NOVEMBER
FICTION
(LITERARY)
ÇEŞME, JULY 2002
EZGI ÜSTÜNDAĞ
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Pervin opened her eyes when her daughter’s toes dug into her calf. Still asleep, Özge fidgeted until the hot Mediterranean air trapped between the linens and her bare legs dissipated somewhere above the bed. The tangled mass of sheets slid down the mattress’s right side. Pervin stopped herself from leaving the bed to address the small crisis; they were in the final hours of the night, and she deserved to rest a bit longer.
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(FAN FICTION)
GARFIELD.GOV
ADAM HOFBAUER
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Every morning, Jim put on a pair of crisp khaki pants and an alligator polo, and went in to work at the Paws Compound. They continued to produce and illustrate the comic strip as they had for forty years, and manage its syndication and online distribution rights. But the actual writing, now that it was the only strip approved for national publication, was being conducted at an undisclosed government site. Every month, the Bureau of Cultural Management faxed the staff scripts, and careful notes on the means by which they would be illustrated.
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NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTED CONTRIBUTORS:
William Doreski's work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently A Black River, A Dark Fall (Splash of Red, 2018).
Meg Freer grew up in Montana and lives in Ontario. Her photos and poems have won awards and have been published in chapbooks, anthologies and journals such as NatureWriting and Mothers Always Write. In 2017 she won a fellowship and attended the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi.
Adam Hofbauer’s fiction has been featured in the United States and the UK, including in The Emerson Review, Gold Dust Magazine and The Dead Mule School Review. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He lives in Philadelphia.
Ezgi Üstündağ was born in upstate New York but did most of her growing up in Ames, Iowa. Her Turkish short fiction has appeared in the literary journals YKY Kitap-lık, altZine, Lemur, and others. In English, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bosphorus Review of Books and Flash Fiction Magazine, and her novella 'Mother Tongue' is forthcoming from Urban Farmhouse Press.
William Doreski's work has appeared in various e and print journals and in several collections, most recently A Black River, A Dark Fall (Splash of Red, 2018).
Meg Freer grew up in Montana and lives in Ontario. Her photos and poems have won awards and have been published in chapbooks, anthologies and journals such as NatureWriting and Mothers Always Write. In 2017 she won a fellowship and attended the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi.
Adam Hofbauer’s fiction has been featured in the United States and the UK, including in The Emerson Review, Gold Dust Magazine and The Dead Mule School Review. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He lives in Philadelphia.
Ezgi Üstündağ was born in upstate New York but did most of her growing up in Ames, Iowa. Her Turkish short fiction has appeared in the literary journals YKY Kitap-lık, altZine, Lemur, and others. In English, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bosphorus Review of Books and Flash Fiction Magazine, and her novella 'Mother Tongue' is forthcoming from Urban Farmhouse Press.
