Best of the Net 2019 Nominations

Today we announce our Best of the Net 2019 Nominations. For those unfamiliar, Sundress Publications produces an annual Best of the Net Anthology to showcase online work. Submissions for the anthology, however, must come from the online publication that first shared the work online. In addition, for the 2019 anthology, the work must have appeared between July 1, 2018 and Read More

Homage to My Middle-Aged Black Body

by Christine Taylor Because most of the time I hate this body stiff hip flexors, cracking knees sore, cystic breasts rolls and stretch marks that appear in mirrored angles I marvel when on the sidewalk escorting at the women’s clinic I swell by how completely I love this body the brownness of it its animal-like awareness, its speed getting to Read More

Fireworks

by Christine Taylor Some nights we sit up peer at the sky through the blinds we don’t know if what we hear   is what we think we hear:      thunder               construction          fireworks   bullets. I remind him   today is June 14, Flag Day certainly a cause for celebration he sets his beer bottle   on the Read More