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Pond 87 - June 2025

Submissions Open
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Be part of the solution. Read.
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- Ken

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The 2024 Anthology is now available

POEM
Jeanne Julian - In Decision

FLASH
Ken Poyner - Forgetting

SHORT  STORY
Brendan Gallagher - Extra Extra, Tell Me About It

POEM
John Grey - Reservoir

FROM THE EDITOR
Bobby Mans Up

FLASH
Joe Del Castillo - Now And Then

PROSE  POEM
Charles Springer - Knocking On Wood

CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Malia McCarrick - On Toilet Paper: A Unique Spin

FLASH
Presley Acuna - The Perfume and The Lady

Feed the Carp...
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Friends of the Carp
American Life in Poetry
The Art of Elizabeth Darrow

Barking Moose Press 
Six Questions For...
Pearl S. Buck International​
The Hemingway Society
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Mind of a Poet
John Grey​​​
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Author Profile
Russell Fee​
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Gasp!...

ARTISTS and SHUTTERBUGS
I’m looking for original artwork and enhanced photos featuring Carp (including Koi) for the Carpwork Gallery. See the Submissions page for details.

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Authors' Row

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Leslie Hodge
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“Leslie Hodge threads her poems with the surreal and humor and truth. I feel something new with every poem.” TR Poulson​
Stan Dryer
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The Americanization of Lo Pac is a quick fun read, the perfect flight candy for your next trip. Nobody gets murdered but there are plenty of secrets along the way, plus much love both requited and unrequited. The plot? Young Lo Pac, a resident of Langoria, learns English so he can work in a proposed Langoria resort. In English class he falls in love with lovely Ting Ho, but fate soon separates them. Lo Pac then goes to America to learn cooking skills.  Still pining for his lost love, he finds success in the most unusual way. And then….
Cheryl J. Fish
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With age 40 looming, Nate, Nora, and Lulu find their lives unraveling, their aspirations dashed. Nate, dead broke, in his eighth year of graduate school delves into yoga. Nate's ex-girlfriend Nora finagles a position in Finland where she tries on men like miniskirts and embraces sisu, the Finnish concept of perseverance, in pursuit of motherhood. And yogi Lulu, Nate’s talented teacher, yearns to get to the bottom of her nightmares of childhood abuse. OFF THE YOGA MAT takes the reader on three risky coming-of-middle age journeys through sensuality, emotional evolution, and breathing deep.
Terry Tierney
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Set in the Vietnam War era, Lucky Ride tells the story of a recent veteran, an unraveling marriage, and a hitchhiking trip steeped in hippie optimism, post-war skepticism, and drug-induced fantasy.
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“A bang-zoom road trip novel with the queasy high-flying pace of Easy Rider and the breakneck prose of On the Road” --Douglas Cole, author of The White Field.
Vali Hawkins-Mitchell
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​Now more than ever we are all well served by truly deeply listening; to the voices that come from within and from the voices of others.  Reading some of these voices may help you find your own.
Kim Malinowski
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Kim Malinowski's verse novel plays The Phantom of the Opera the novel by reflecting the original characters' roles onto modern day characters. Who wears the true mask--The Phantom or the protagonist protecting her agency?
Terence Gallagher
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Conrad is an office techie long past obsolescence, who spends his days at work waiting for the axe to fall. His refuge at night is his cool, dusty house teeming with memories, and his dreams–dreams of another world, an empire peopled by robber knights, kidnapped ladies, and a sinister warrior brotherhood.  It's no wonder Conrad gets a little addled, and no surprise that the dream empire and the waking world begin to run together.

William Quincy Belle
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​A post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi thriller.
Antigravity: floating cites. Pandemic: 80% dead. Flesh-eating disease: artificial body parts. Insects as food. And murder in dystopia.
Peter Dabbene
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​Complex Simplicity reprints the first 101 entries from Peter Dabbene's monthly column in the Hamilton Post newspaper, plus assorted essays focusing on comic books, movies, social media, politics, mixed martial arts, astronomy, and more. With humor and style, these pages probe the important and not-so-important issues of everyday life in New Jersey, and America at large.

Ken Poyner
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​A collection of fantastical mini-fictions. A man who encounters mammoth rustlers. Houses that begin to move on their own, forcing the inhabitants to finally introduce themselves to their neighbors. Giant chickens that are hunted for processing in the chicken sandwich industry. And much more.

​Humor, irony, mythical realism, surrealism, soft science fiction.
​Fred McGavran
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"McGavran’s are stories of obsession and experience. They are the stories of characters who are nearing death and who are thinking about what they will leave behind. They are deeply human, and entirely serious, with a touch of humor and a little bit of magic to light the way."         - Anna Kasik, Englewood Review of Books

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