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Poetry: “Clockwise Dreams” by Holly Day

Robots don’t believe in ghosts, they attribute
the wheezing and clicking of late-night phantoms […]

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Spring Contest: Monsters and Mermaids and Myths, Oh My!

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 […]

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POETRY: “Lotería” by Philip Kobylarz

At the gate, bottles with cut lips. Crypts of grass cuttings. Moth wings. Stationary […]

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POETRY: “Eavesdropping On The Redwoods” by Sharon Lopez Mooney

I thought I heard some tough young redwoods
trying to get the ancients’ attention
but the elder trees are not interested in prattle, […]

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POETRY: “Ribs” by Corey Hill

I’d like to know the
Funny thing in your ribs. […]

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POETRY: “Music Lessons” by Ellis Elliott

I can tell you about the student learning
by holding a bag of beans in her palm
in order to feel the weight of the notes […]

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POETRY: “Hawk Over Nantasket Beach” by Sarath Reddy

At first my eyes said
a kite hovering a hundred feet above
but there was no thread attached,
no child anchored in sand, arms outstretched,
countering the coastal gale. […]

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POETRY: “The Remover Of Obstacles” by Sarath Reddy

Deities sat perched on temple parapets,
concrete birds gleaming in the Georgia sun. […]

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Fiction: “Good Taste” by Dana Schwartz

In the bedroom of a small apartment outside Kielce in Poland, a man named Gustaw Smolak had a heart attack just as his wife left to get groceries in their olive green Camaro.  The Smolak family lived on the second floor of a building that had been redecorated so many times by its tenants over […]

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Fiction: “Into the Horizon” by Kacy Cunningham

Gam never cuddled or cooed.  She didn’t linger or inquire or speak of love.  She had suffered the loss of her husband over two decades ago and, though they hadn’t laughed often, when they did, it was deep and hearty.  Gam smothered bread with butter and piled ham high between the white, buttery slices, serving […]

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