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April 2026 Publications

My One and Only Love Angela Costanzo, 2011

april publications

“Granny invites the bees to her funeral. She stands behind our cottage, facing the velvet hills, the blueberry sky. Bees, bees, she says and the bees make a whirlwind around...

24 days ago
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March 2026 Publications

Meeting at Centerport by Angela Costanzo, 2007

march publications

“She is seven years old, plump, tanned and covered in scratches and scrapes. She is red and swollen, and tomorrow there will be bruises. Dirt films her, made into a past...

2 months ago
22

February 2026 Publications

Catharsis, Album Art for the Awakening Orchestra by Angela Costanzo, 2020

february publications

“We gathered them at dusk, brittle casings caught in the mesh of the fence, clinging to tomato vines, tucked beneath the lip of the porch r...

3 months ago
15

January 2026 Publications

Better off Flying by Angela Costanzo, 2016

january publications

“If they ask where I go at night, I won’t tell them about the second job I had to pick up this winter, about the surprise medical bill that broke my budget or those long n...

4 months ago
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December 2025 Publications

artwork by Sarah J. Sloat (@sjane30) and Dina L. Relles (@dinalrelles)

december publications

“Daryl disappeared while we were gathering wood. He’d stayed back to prep dinner. We returned to an empty camp.”
Happy Birthday by Michael C...

5 months ago
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    matchbook is an online literary journal that publishes one piece of short prose accompanied by an author's note every two weeks. Its initial run was from 2009 to 2021. It reopened in 2024.

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