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Welcome to Writers Resist, the December 2022 Issue

By | 2022-12-12T12:17:05-08:00 December 7th, 2022|Categories: Issue 138: 08 December 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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 [...]

On Hearing of Russian Soldiers Booby-Trapping Dead Ukrainian Civilians with Land Mines

By | 2022-12-06T14:06:44-08:00 December 7th, 2022|Categories: Issue 138: 08 December 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

By Karen Kilcup   How do they do it— lift a heavy head and place the bomb beneath an ear? Slide the metal disc under a shoulder or thigh? Or worse: do they slice the swollen long-dead chest, flies fluttering, the stink unbearable, nearly? Do they carve a red-rimmed cavity large enough to implant the device, [...]

Throwaway

By | 2022-07-25T11:11:51-07:00 June 23rd, 2022|Categories: Issue 136: 23 June 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , |

By Karen Kilcup Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?  –Rachel Carson   A one-woman Revolution, Jemima Wilkinson was stoned for preaching the light that lives in everyone. The Public Universal Friend was driven north from Philadelphia to the Finger Lakes, her movement forecasting what would follow: women’s rights, [...]