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Sometimes domestic life can be as unsettling as a pipe full of creeping centipedes, as Juliet Cook shows us in her wry & visceral “Domestic Mini-Horror,” one of two poems she contributed to our Winter 2015 issue.
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WHY AM I SUDDENLY GETTING DOMESTIC
roaming charges while talking on the phone with my mom
who lives fifteen minutes away?
Why am I crowded by too much normalcy,
with not enough uncanny ghost wings
flying underneath my sheets?
Who tossed my streaks of clairvoyance
all the way down into the damned garbage disposal?
Whoever you are, this won’t last forever.
If I concentrate hard enough, I can create
my own onslaught. I can shiftily rise myself
out of that slimy, dirty hole.
Centipedes will start maneuvering up
out of that disposal, dripping red,
but still crawling.
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JULIET COOK‘s poetry has appeared in many literary publications, including Arsenic Lobster, Diode, ILK, and Menacing Hedge. She is the author of more than thirteen chapbooks, including POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (Grey Book Press, 2013), RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014), a collaborative chapbook with Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015) and a collaborative chapbook with j/j hastain, Dive Back Down (forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press in 2015). Find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
As 2014 has been careening through its homestretch, our Flappers have been even more prolific than usual, getting their work published across the internet like there won’t be a 2015.
Jeff Laughlin shared some things he’s learned this year in “The Year I Didn’t Belong” over at Triad City Beat.
Mari Ness’ “Offgrid” popped up at Three-Lobed Burning Eye.
Dusty Wallace’s “Flight of the Lonely” went up at Acidic Fiction.
Samantha Eliot Stier’s “Plugs” was inserted into The Writing Disorder.
Juliet Cook & j/j hastain collaborated on “Clots Push Over the Edge” for the latest issue of Stirring.
Alison McBain’s playfully absurd “Nothing For Sale” was featured at Saturday Night Reader.
Ed Ahern left his “Aftertaste” at New Pop Lit.
Anna Lea Jancewicz’s poem “Black Robin” nested at Spry Lit.
Cassandra de Alba’s poem “Tyra Banks in the Arctic Circle” strutted the runway at Glitter Mob.
Mila Jaroniec joined drDOCTOR for their year-end podcast.
Emily O’Neill’s poem “Proof” was included in the latest edition of Sundog Lit.
Natalia Theodoridou’s “The Ravens’ Sister” perched itself at The Kenyon Review Online.
J.E. Reich wrote about embracing the changing Jewish family for The Jewish Daily Forward.
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s “Sleepers” went up at Fantastic Stories of the Imagination.
Julie C. Day’s “Faerie Medicine,” which initially appeared in FLAPPERHOUSE #2, was reprinted by Luna Station Quarterly.
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