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Pond 58 - August 2020

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Submissions Open
StC is going ad free starting this issue. I never liked Google Ads, ruined the clean home page, and well, they’re from Google.

​Take care and care big.

- Ken
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Still available

POEM
Emily Strauss - At the Strip Mall, Worked to Death​

SHORT STORY
James Rumpel - It’s All About the Ratings​

SHORT STORY
A.C. McGrath - The Words​
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SHORT STORY
Scott Parson - Brass Balls Of Ignorance​

FROM THE EDITOR
Tropical God

POEM
Nancy Cherry - Stupid​

POEM
Carson Pytell - Accidents​

SHORT STORY
Tim Frank - Pastor Nelson Grimes' Surprise Reunion Show​

FLASH
Patricia Schultheis - What the World Needs Now​

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

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Six Questions For...
Pearl S. Buck International​
The Hemingway Society

Author Profile
​Carson Pytell
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Mind of a Poet
​Denise Cloutier
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Handmade carp...

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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Carson Pytell
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"Carson Pytell’s First-Year is a moving collection of quiet and contemplative poetry. With deceptively simple narratives, Pytell captures the weight of our personal histories and the hidden significance of our trifles..."
- Brian Geiger (Founder/Editor, Vita Brevis Press)
Patrick T. Reardon
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This exceptional book enables us to see, as if for the first time, something that is right under our noses. It is almost impossible to imagine downtown Chicago and the Loop ‘L’ without each other, and Patrick T. Reardon explains just why that is so in a lively narrative full of information and insights.”
​—Carl Smith, author of Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

Vincent J. Tomeo
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​My Cemetery Friends is timeless. Walk with renowned author
and poet Vincent J. Tomeo through garden pathways of life.
Along the way, encounter other travelers trekking a similar
trail, embrace new acquaintances, and this will make all the
difference.
Carol Roan
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A small New Jersey farming town survived a brutal invasion by the British in 1776, but now it faces another invasion, this time by artists. The eponymous story in this linked collection was first published in Pond 22, 2016.
(Available at www.snakenationpress.org.)
Annette Sisson
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​“Annette Sisson’s heart-driven poems are clear, well-shaped and loaded with sharp imagery. A Casting Off mixes metaphor with landscapes which become spiritual in-scapes filled with wonder and mystery, loss and grief.” –Bill Brown, poet
Peter Dabbene
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You've got spam! And so does everyone else. But what happens when you reply to those spam e-mails?

​Peter Dabbene poses as his alter ego, Dieter P. Bieny—a man who gives spammers just enough hope to keep them coming back for more abuse.

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.
Patrick Reardon
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​In “Requiem for David,” Patrick T. Reardon wrestles with the suicide of his brother and the pain they shared as the children of demanding and emotionally absent parents.  Novelist-poet Sandra Cisneros calls Reardon's book “the heart’s howl,” and poet Haki Madhubuti writes: “Reardon’s poetry reminds me of the great poet and Catholic priest, Daniel Berrigan.”

John Michael Flynn
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John Michael Flynn’s language dazzles to a very real end: the exploration and delineation of the free-floating breakdown known as “America.” The range of tones and locales he uses is impressive but more impressive is the feeling invested in what almost inevitably slips through time’s fingers. Anyone wondering where the Whitmanesque impulse has gone need look no further.
—Baron Wormser

Visit  www.basilrosa.com.
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

Hear Roberta Schultz's review on WVXU
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