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Interview with Ivelisse Rodriguez

February 15, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

I am in awe of the impact Ivelisse Rodriguez’s short-story collection Love War Stories had on me as a reader. Ivelisse got me laughing and crying and spitting mad. She also had me wanting to study her text for clues, connections, and themes like it was a university seminar. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Essay Tagged With: Ivelisse Rodriguez, Love War Stories

Mother Heart

January 7, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

Presenting: Mother Heart, a brand new work of art by the talented Robert James Russell. I have fallen in love with Robert's quirky, attention-grabbing drawings and water colors. I am especially drawn to his use of color and to how he combines humor with pathos, humanity with wild … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: Art, Drawings, Mother Heart, Osprey, Robert James Russell

Top Ten Bits & Pieces of Ice

January 1, 2019 By Maureen Langloss

I was touched when Little Fiction asked me to write a 2018 top-ten list for their annual New Year's tradition. But I was also stumped. What to write? As I concentrated more on the task, images of ice kept popping into my head. Icebergs, blocks of ice, icicles. I kept shaking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading, Featured Essay Tagged With: Annie Dillard, Antarctica, Attaboy, cocktails, Dawn Wall, figure skating, Hannah Tinti, ice, Jakobshavn Glacier, Leni Zumas, Maria Semple, Red Clocks, Stephanie Burt, Stephanie Vaughn, Zaria Forman

The Vibration Before the Sound

November 14, 2018 By Maureen Langloss

My story, The Vibration Before the Sound, was published this month in Little Fiction's flash issue alongside some brilliant pieces by Lori Sambol Brody, Kate Gehan, DeMisty Bellinger, Anna Vangala Jones, and many more. I hope you get a chance to read the whole issue. As usual, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: flash fiction, Little Fiction, Short Fiction

Why We Chose It: The Exhibit

September 18, 2018 By Maureen Langloss

Split Lip Magazine has started a nifty blog series called "Why We Chose it?" This month, I had the opportunity to write about why we published "The Exhibit" by Samantha Kimmey, a dark and powerful flash fiction that grabbed me from the very first read. It was an honor to publish … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Essay Tagged With: Editor, flash fiction, Samantha Kimmey, Short Fiction, Split Lip Magazine

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Gull flying out over turquoise water

May I Hover Like a Gull

…Why not take the smashed pinecone of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of baking thirteen pies, six bumbleberry, seven sour cherry? Yes, why not? As you may know, I recently dedicated myself to a new writing practice—a promise to copy a poem a day. And here I am changing the rules […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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