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Tag: adventures

Field on Butternut by Max Newman
Poetry

Field on Butternut by Max Newman

March 3, 2025March 3, 20250

“We could have climbed into the moon. Instead / we biked in the metalshadows beneath Ohioan / hills everything hung still in the air” – excerpt from Field on Butternut, a #poem by Max Newman #MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

All You Should Remember by Perry L. Powell
Poetry

All You Should Remember by Perry L. Powell

April 1, 2024April 1, 20240

“You wait for the night / below the castle on the mountain.” – Excerpt from All You Should Remember by Perry L. Powell #MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“Big, Blue Watery Eye” by Joe Ducato
Fiction

“Big, Blue Watery Eye” by Joe Ducato

January 8, 2024January 22, 20240

“Her other big talent was the ability to talk Kit into anything as long as she supplied the courage. That’s how she got him to go into that cave that day.” – excerpt from Big, Blue Watery Eye by Joe Ducato #MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“Game of Interludes” by Patricia Ann Bowen
Fiction

“Game of Interludes” by Patricia Ann Bowen

April 24, 2023April 17, 20230

“He told me how the image of that clear cold gin sliding past my red lips and down my throat had driven him nearly mad with desire.”
#MetaworkerMonday #TheMetaworker

“In the Kingdom of Songora” by Linda McMullen
Fiction

“In the Kingdom of Songora” by Linda McMullen

January 31, 2022January 30, 20220

James was a senior when I was a freshman at Salem North High School; I fell in love with him when I heard he’d persuaded …

“Still in the City” by DS Maolalai
Poetry

“Still in the City” by DS Maolalai

October 11, 2021October 10, 20210

on hills by park pathwaysand beds of fresh petal,we collapse on our elbowsand tightly scrubbed grass.twist off ourbackpacks, wet with the weightof the sun and …

“Game [ON]” by Henry Crawford
Poetry

“Game [ON]” by Henry Crawford

October 15, 2018August 19, 20200

[w]ham-o Sam-o [Suitors Up!] [yellow] [look out!] [look out!] rainbows of [arrows] candies of crushes [beads] and bangles [open the vessels] hit it now [hit …

“Ice Cream or Moxie” by Kristy Gherlone
Fiction

“Ice Cream or Moxie” by Kristy Gherlone

August 12, 2018August 29, 20200

In the heat of the summer, back when Willow’s mother slipped in and out of lunacy, sometimes she’d wake up at night to find her …

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