In case you didn't know Writers Resist celebrates each quarterly issue with a virtual reading, and you are invited to join us for this issue's gathering. Writers Resist Reads • Saturday 28 January 2023 • 5:00 p.m. PACIFIC Zoom information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88356614245?pwd=a1FRMndJYzI3VzE1Ym9yZUU2ODhHdz09 Meeting ID: 883 5661 4245 Passcode: 247349 In the meantime, we know the world is [...]
By Dotty LeMieux The gun tucked neatly in the large man’s waist I avoid his stare, move slowly, lock the door I move slowly out the door Cap pistol held at the ready The gun moves out in the large man’s hand Children run fast across the lawn I cross the lawn going pop pop [...]
By Dotty LeMieux Where are the birds of spring? I see bees—are there enough? Black carpenter ants—we never had them before— emerge from some dusky damp place beneath the foundation. We live in a house of cards. Even a bear takes exception to exceptional times and climbs a backyard tree he must have crossed mountains [...]
By Dotty LeMieux It’s delivery day at St. Vincent’s Dining Room men unloading trucks with bread, canned goods, day-old everything for the homeless and the not-yet homeless hanging on by the skin of their teeth, the ones who have teeth and the ones who only have the skin Scruffy off-white hair, long brown coat like [...]
