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Spy Reprints “From Here” by Lillie Gardner

October 31, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: I started writing “From Here” years ago in Los Angeles, on the trip that the piece is about. I was processing a breakup, helping my sister move to a faraway place, and generally figuring out how to be alone. The piece is about gathering strength to live life for your own sake—and finding the courage to go forth into the unknown... [Continue Story]

Lillie Gardner - From Here

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Spy Reprints “The White Egrets” by Richard Tillinghast

October 31, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: “The White Egrets,” from my new book, Blue If Only I Could Tell You, reflects life in an isolated place in the country. The scene specifically draws on where I live in the upland regions of Hawaii Island, but other readers may recognize treasured places of their own. Here I am emulating the style of classical Chinese and Japanese poets like Du Fu and Basho...  [Continue Story]

Richard Tillinghast - The White Egrets

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Spy Reprints “Bratwurst Kid” by Richard Peabody

October 18, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: I used to play guitar in college with the late poet David Hickman. We’d workshop songs we’d written. And one day he told me, “Your song lyrics really suck as songs but they might make pretty good poems.” Turns out I’ve rubbed elbows with a lot of musicians since then. Some had the chops to escape the bar scene. I was a hack and never would have made that leap. I had to make a decision and my focus shifted to poetry and fiction. This poem is the possible road not traveled by a failed singer-songwriter...  [Continue Story]

Richard Peabody - Bratwurst Kid

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Spy Reprints “No Business Like Show Business” by Jill B. Dalton

October 10, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author Note: I dreamed of being an actress since I was five. My grandmother took me to a production of Annie Get Your Gun at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. At some point in the play, the... [Continue Story]

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Spy Reprints “Asymptote” by Irina Moga

October 6, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: I’ve always thought that daylight in the month of October in North America has a special, glorious quality which can’t be quantified. October is also a time of intense back-to-school...  [Continue Story]

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Spy Reprints “In the Sea God’s Cave” by Craig Dobson

October 6, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: Still coming to terms with his failed marriage and estrangement from his son, a middle-aged man finds a small cave on a beach while staying nearby. Its secluded, shrine-like quality ...[Continue Story]

Craig Dobson - Sea God Cave

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Spy Reprints “Betty Has Brass Candlesticks in Her Bedroom” by Samn Stockwell

October 5, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: During the pandemic, I wrote roughly 60 poems about Betty; it was interesting to be so absorbed in her world. She is a person of marginal means living in an occupied village somewhere in the rural United States sometime in the future. Betty’s background is similar to mine, but she is hardier and more realistic. In this poem, she is reviewing her physical inheritance and the lives of her relatives...  [Continue Story]

Samn Stockwell - Brass Candlesticks

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Spy Reprints “Song, Luminescence Leaving” by Judith McCombs

October 5, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: "Song, Luminescence" comes from the unheard words that came one morning, long after Dad had died in Florida, and Mother in Oregon. I was sitting out back, very early one morning, when I ...  [Continue Story]

Judith McCombs - Song Luminescence

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Spy Reprints “What Makes a Home a Trailer” by Billie Pritchett

October 5, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Editor’s Note: The best “flash” or very short nonfiction connects with readers on several levels by compressing writing, inviting one’s imagination to expand meanings and feelings from the author’s evocative words. Billie Pritchett’s piece is a compelling example.

Author’s Note: In this story, I try to capture a little of what it was like when I was a boy growing up poor in western Kentucky. Material poverty created in me a poverty of psychology. Now I know the only way to combat the poverty mindset is whatever pride I can muster and proximity to good people. Father never discovered the second option for himself, unfortunately.

[Continue Story]

Billie Pritchett - Home Trailer

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Spy Reprints “The Horned Hat at the Insurrection” by Jessica Gregg

October 4, 2022 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: I thought the best way to capture the Insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, was to make the day’s most famous headgear a narrator for the event. This is the first (and only) poem that I have written from the viewpoint of a hat. A class taught by Maryland poet Ann Quinn inspired me. [Continue Story]

Jessica Gregg - Horned Hat

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