Sequestrum
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Sequestrum (N): 1. A necrotic bone fragment, separate from standard skeletal structures. 2. A literary journal of short prose and poetry.
Joined April 2015
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
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A story of vengeance and humor and love threats of crooked teeth. Mattingly is at his best "In the House of Nice People": .
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Read More: A Q&A with Alex Mattingly I knew my sister-in-law wanted me to take the bird, but sending her son to deliver it was a surprise. She and I didn’t really get along. Maybe if I knew my...
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"You haven’t talked to me for thirteen years since.I blew out the candle of your last night on the earth —.let your pain leave. Last months on morphine. when we dwelled within the half-lucid, half-psychic.ward of your dreams, I still hoped. ".
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Read More: A Q&A with Elina Petrova Peace Lilies not lilies quite. My garden angel guarded them forty days since your mother’s celebration of life till eight flame-shaped leaves became flowers –...
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Theme: Heroes.Deadline: 9/15 .Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry .We want your lost heroes, your disappointments, your antihero darlings. Also, don’t we all want somebody who saves the goddamn world in the end?.
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It seems the world is increasingly jaded about heroes. Some of that’s for good reason. They are multibillion dollar franchises and the centers of controversies and the collectors of social media...
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Theme: The Unknown.Deadline: 9/15.Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry.We want tense, imaginative, literary-quality writing that dares explore new spaces.
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“No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Frost We’ve always been drawn to writing which favors curiosity. The best writing occupies the space between constants, favors variability,...
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Theme: Visual .Deadline: 9/15 .Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry .Graphic novels. Erasures. Photographic essays. Comics. Visual poetry. Cross-genre. We’re after literary-quality writing with a visual component. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry.
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We live in an increasingly visual world, and writing is no exception. Graphic novels. Erasures. Photographic essays. Comics. Visual poetry. Cross-genre. There are probably entire categories of visual...
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Happy to announce former Sequestrum contributor Joseph Harms has released Taps, an unabridged collection of poetry collections Bel, Nous, Goety, Youel and Funest, which has been published by Todos Contentos Y Yo También Press. Find it here:
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Independent Press | Publisher Of Fine Books | New York City & Valencia
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RT @simpsons_DG: In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
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The Internet Is a ‘Dumping Ground for Unhinged and Unhealed’. - Katy Perry. Proof, vis-à-vis broken clocks/right on occasion.
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Katy Perry has responded to backlash following her Blue Origin space flight, writing in an Instagram comment that she's felt "battered and bruised."
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And when they’ve gathered.enough to fill a library,.they stagger back between buildings,.wait for darkness.and then light them,.page after page rising.to the stars in smoke. Read the rest of "Book Burning" and more poetry by Machan Howd here:
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Read More: A brief Q&A with Eric Machan Howd The Book Burners On winter nights around iron trash cans rusted down hidden alleys they huddle, mumbling the sounds they fear to define, the language that...
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RT @JamesLucasIT: Colorized footage is like a time machine 🧵. 1. English kids in 1901, 124 years ago
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"On the phone, my father dislocates.his mind from space while speaking.in fragments. He does not remember.picking up my child-body when the towers.fell. ". Find more poetry from Livieratos here:.
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Read More: A brief Q&A with Eros Livieratos A Portrait of my Father On the phone, my father dislocates his mind from space while speaking in fragments. He does not remember picking up my child-body...
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Theme: Nature.Deadline: 6/15.Accepting: Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry.Nature is one of those fundamental writing subjects. It's a sanctuary and an ever-evolving presence. It’s a refuge and source of fear. It’s home and it’s foreign. It's where we want to be.
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“In nature, nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” — Walker Nature is one of those fundamental writing subjects....
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