our workshop students have been on https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer"> lately, so we thought we’d share some of their recent work!

“I had lived long enough that the affair caused me no regret.”

@JennyStalter’s transcendent, heart-wrenching “Clementines” from @CeaseCowsMag https://ceasecows.com/2020/10/15/clementines-by-jenny-stalter/">https://ceasecows.com/2020/10/1...

“If you find a stranger in the woods, introduce yourself first to the clouds.”

4 wonderfully surreal dreams by @neonpajamas in @Wigleaf

http://wigleaf.com"> http://wigleaf.com 

“After the second moon bloomed, after the building of numerous rooms, the boy turned into a bear.”

and even more tiny brilliance from @neonpajamas in @SporkPress

http://sporkpress.com/sporklet/10_20/niespodziany.html">https://sporkpress.com/sporklet/...

“He lived with his widowed mother until she met that coal truck on a two-lane highway that needed three.”

and wow, “At The Dark”—a stark, poetic gut-punch (workshopped in our ‘plausible magic’ course) by @WilliamBurtch2 in @svjlit http://www.svjlit.com/fiction#/fiction/svj-online-october-2020-at-the-dark-by-william-burtch-fiction/">https://www.svjlit.com/fiction...

“When the noon church bells ring, Mama feeds me painted skulls I can see only with my mouth, melting until just sugar crystals linger, a spell.”

& this flash of genius: “St. Lucy of El Paso” by @amygcb in @nocontactmag https://www.nocontactmag.com/st-lucy-of-el-paso">https://www.nocontactmag.com/st-lucy-o...