Pond 84 - December 2024 |
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Brace for impact. Read the Carp.
- Ken 
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The 2023 Anthology is now available
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Lindsay Mcleod - Busy Signal
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Ed Kratz - When We Burned The Witches
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C. J. Trotter - Ophthalmology
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James Snyder - Not Achieved, Chosen
FROM THE EDITOR
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Jacqueline Erasin - A Stranger
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Carla Schwartz - Poemetry
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Jared Buchholz - Oh, Rats…
SHORT STORY
Stan Dryer - Decline-A-Vow
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Feed the Carp...
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 For something entirely different check out
Carpal Tuna. 
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Mind of a Poet
Carla Schwartz 
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Author Profile
Leslie Hodge 
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Cloudy...
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
Click on any image to order.
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Leslie Hodge
“Leslie Hodge threads her poems with the surreal and humor and truth. I feel something new with every poem.” TR Poulson
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Stan Dryer
The Americanization of Lo Pac is satire and humor wrapped around a poignant love story. It tells the adventures of Lo Pac, a native of the tiny Asiatic country of Langoria, who hopes to work for the new Memory-Types Langorian resort. He learns the wonderful English language and goes to America to learn cooking skills. Along the way he falls in love, but circumstances keep him apart from his true love. Yet, thanks to the help of his newfound American friends, he overcomes failure and the pangs of unrequited love to find both fame and fortune.
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Cheryl J. Fish
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.
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Terry Tierney
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.
“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. |
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Vali Hawkins-Mitchell
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.
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Kim Malinowski
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?
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Richard Sipe
"From haunting reflections on evil figurines that dominate a night room to equally powerful literary images that equate everyday love, loss, and adversity with the philosophical and cultural indicators of life transformed, Richard Sipe captures a host of ethereal and evocative imagery that juxtaposes everyday experience with nearly supernatural overlays..."
-D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review |
Terence Gallagher
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.
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William Quincy Belle
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
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.
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Ken Poyner
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
"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
Hear Roberta Schultz's review on WVXU |