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Donna Vitucci
Donna D. Vitucci has been publishing since 1990. She lives in North Carolina, where she enjoys reading and writing, yoga, hiking, cooking and gardening. Dozens of her stories, poems and slices of memoir can be found in print and online. Her work explores the ache and mistake of secrets among family, lovers and friends. Read…
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Chris Bernstorf
Doing This The needle punctuated the air, a relentless gavel handing down sentences, the craft-store-bought fate punching white nylon futures through the presser foot and into dead canvas my mother’d scrapped from old projects gone wrong. This was her first attempt at the sewing machine after the doctors finally cauterized the last retinal bleeds and…
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M.S. Rooney
On the car radio, I hear an update on the Caldor Fire, but instead of images of exploding trees, melting cars, lives and homes destroyed, my mind sees a childhood path, a wooded bank on the South Fork of the American River, a forest alive with deer, squirrels, snakes, jays, trout-filled pools, cousins in jeans…
