Posts by Writers Garret
Margaret Allyson
Margaret Allyson enjoyed a long career in publishing and is now happy to sleep late, work in the garden, faff around with textiles, play with food, and generally have a fine…
Read MoreBill Marvel
Bill Marvel is a lifelong journalist and writer, starting at the Rocky Mountain News in 1961; The National Observer, where he was art critic and senior arts editor from 1969…
Read MoreAnn Graham
Originally from Kansas, Ann Graham has lived in Texas for nearly forty years. Her MFA in painting and drawing continues to inform her writing practice. She attended the Squaw Valley Community of…
Read MoreKathleen Rodgers
I settle into reading the menu at the Main Street Bakery in Grapevine waiting for Kathleen Rodgers. She enters the cozy lit bistro, all energy and enthusiasm. We smile and…
Read MoreBarbara Shinn
Barbara Shinn is a retired pathologist who is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. She has long resided in Dallas, but it…
Read MoreRuth Woolson, Reminiscence
The organ played – harshly, sadly and slowIt would render a solemn tune, muted by a distant black crowAlone in the field the bird cackled aloudDrawing glares and scowls from…
Read MoreCarol Stowe, TERROR
When you are only 3 or 4 the terror will render you frozenMuted from the ability to cry out in fear, From expressing the horror that would be likely to…
Read MoreChristopher Stephen Soden, The Burden of Yearning Heavenward
Oh, to emerge in shining fettle, abandon the crush of terror, bask in obscure shadow of bliss. Aching for absence to reveal the source, the escape from chaos. Once…
Read MoreAlexis Diano Sikorski, from every overemotional teenager with a really bad crush
you left me bent, gravity-bound to you— adrenaline scoring her nails down my back, an opera, prima donna sustaining a quavering note of such urgency an organ is driven through…
Read MoreValentina Saldaña, tHE aRTISTIC vIOLENCE oF hYPOCRISY
I welcome all of you to my sumptuous feast, not everyone was invited. I feel duty bound to warn you that some manifestations are not always what they seem. I…
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