Backwards Trajectory
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Backwards trajectory is a backwards thinking literary magazine. Our motto is never move forward. Now accepting submissions for poems, flash and visual art.
Portland, OR
Joined December 2021
Chuffed to publish this great cartoon by the great Christine Chen
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Christine H. Chen was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Madagascar before settling in Boston where she worked as a research chemist. Her fiction work has been published in CRAFT Literary, …
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Today on Backwards Trajectory, poetry by Peter Mladinic
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Iron is about the difficulties of being with one person, about not feeling slighted or making the other person feel slighted. Iron is about the iron and phosphorous molecules that…
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Today on Backwards Trajectory, microfiction by Karen Walker:
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Happy Beings “Humans, attention left,” drones the android. I’m excited. My son? No. “Attributed to an ancientnamed Adam Peterson, only this porch remains from Before Town.” Projec…
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What is Literary writing? People think it's something more elevated. I was depressed and queer and without language to describe myself when I found novels and poetry and books. Literary writing is just us trying to save each other. These ladders must be accessible to everyone.
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Writing a novel is a lot like using a broken plunger to clean a dirty river.
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Today on Backwards Trajectory, microfiction by Karen Walker:
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Happy Beings “Humans, attention left,” drones the android. I’m excited. My son? No. “Attributed to an ancientnamed Adam Peterson, only this porch remains from Before Town.” Projec…
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Today on Backwards Trajectory: Story by Cheryl Snell
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It’s a Sunday ritual, this absurdity─ two sets of flailing old bones trying not to injure each other─ but it’s the conduit to the weekly movie, which is what she’s really after. If the movie is bad…
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Today on Backwards Trajectory: Poetry by Frederick Pollack
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Today on Backwards Trajectory: Flash from Niles Riddick
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I wanted to name our daughter Nessie, partly for the Loch Ness monster in Scotland andpartly for a wild girl I dated while studying abroad in Edinburg, but my wife wanted to name herMildred after h…
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Today on Backwards Trajectory: Flash Fiction by Sally Wagner, 'Empty'
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“You have an empty heart, you know that?” he exclaimed and stared at her unblinkingly; his piercing blue eyes brimming with tears. She looked down at her plate, avoiding his gaze. She shouldn’t hav…
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Today on Backwards Trajectory: Poetry by S.F. Wright
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Raindrops— Vanish As they Descend: You And Me. Image by Adam Strong Poetry by S.F. Wright S.F. Wright lives and teaches in New Jersey. His work has appeared in Hobart, Linden Avenue Literary …
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Today on Backwards Trajectory: Visual art by Edward Lee
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Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, …
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Today on Backwards Trajectory, Flash Fiction by Isabelle B.L
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The child’s howls merged with the mother’s shrills. The infant hammered the ground and rolled into a ball like a fearful armadillo. I forced her metallic shell open, removed the blood-s…
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Today on Backwards Trajectory, poetry by Alec Gourley. https://t.co/AjNC75vSPz
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On the perambulated promenade, Men of my own Chinese animal pass by. They are not weighed down by life, Dutifully pushing again, the womb fruit toward sunlight. I once false circled their orbit bef…
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Today we showcase our first video. A Body, Alone in the City. https://t.co/eHIsLO17eL Video and illustration by @kronski
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Video and Illustrations by Adam Strong
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Today on Backwards Trajectory, poetry by Fabrice Poussin. https://t.co/fKhNWOHfyc
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The flashing sign of emergency faintno sirens screeched through the airfor the wretched remains.Surrounded by the glamour of gentle dayscollecting a thick dust of ages on the baby grandaltar to a s…
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Today on the Backwards Trajectory, Prose by Salvatore Difalco.
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The dark hard hands belonged to my father. With them he mixed mortar and laid bricks and made possible the bread on our table. Mother’s blue eyes floodlit the room when she was very happy or angry.…
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Today on the Backwards Trajectory, prose by Deborah Cohan.
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You return to the town where you grew up. You take your kid to see your old elementary school. You remember it as an enormous, open, free space filled with trees and a jungle gym, surrounded b…
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Up today on Backwards Trajectory, Prose Poetry by Howie Good.
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The nurse trainee administered numbing drops to my left eye only. Three days earlier, I had seen black letters of the Hebrew alphabet outlined in fire in the sky. The room where I now writhed in th…
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Today on Backwards Tracjectory, Poetry by Ci Ree:
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The sea before me has buried countless dead bodies, and concealed untold more moving bodies. A violent wave hits the shore and I feel the sand slowly piercing my body. Every pore is clogged with fr…
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