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The face in the cloud speaks to me. “I see you down there, grinding away. I prefer floating. I prefer drenching.” O Spring, the imagination runs wild! A fine line separates fancy and insanity, like I don’t know. Now it fucking rains. The face in the cloud, darker now, chides me for forgetting my umbrella. […]
Read More Poetry: “Blue-Sky Thinking” by Salvatore DifalcoI sprinkle a plastic cup of salt on the icy, ribboned, lacey, slippery sidewalk. Cold prickles my face. Ice crackles, like laughter and small talk at a gathering party. Then, the sun appears. Pink salt crystals, dissolve, invisible, except on the toe of my left boot—a white streak over the scuffed brown leather. I want […]
Read More Poetry: “Crackle” by Joshua WetjenEuphony is hosting our annual spring prose contest, and the theme this year is LOVE! We want your love stories, your heartbreak, your meet-cutes. Any flavor of love story, we want it! Unsure if it counts as a love story? Submit it anyway! Submit to euphonyjournal@gmail.com with the subject PROSE CONTEST: LOVE STORIES by February 24th. Theme: Love Prize: $20 and […]
Read More Spring prose contest ’24: love stories!At any one time there are scores of houses in the Grosse Pointe area that sit empty, serving time as silent citadels of the neighborhood. They’re owned by family estates whose administrators diligently pay the taxes and heating expenses year after year. They never dream of putting the property up for sale and risk having […]
Read More Prose: “Interloper From Another Neighborhood” by Douglas StewardThe sugar maples survived the taps
their viscous blood dripping into galvanized pails […]
The rest of the coffee
was disturbed by nightmares, […]
Abuelo falls into the ice chest
chugs another Modelo, admits […]
Robots don’t believe in ghosts, they attribute
the wheezing and clicking of late-night phantoms […]
Euphony’s annual Spring Prose Contest is here, and we want your monsters and mermaids and myths! Submit short fiction that adapts or retells a myth or fairy tale for the chance to win $20 and be published in Euphony’s Spring 2023 issue! Deadline: February 17th, 2023 Format: Prose, 12 pages or less (in 12pt double spaced […]
Read More Spring Contest: Monsters and Mermaids and Myths, Oh My!At the gate, bottles with cut lips. Crypts of grass cuttings. Moth wings. Stationary […]
Read More POETRY: “Lotería” by Philip Kobylarz
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