Author: kellirule

  • Whale Road Review: Once, We Were Under the Sea

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    Once, We Were Under the Sea, an ode to prehistoric Florida, can be found in the Spring 2025 edition of the prestigious Whale Road Review. The edition in full is inspiringly curated – jewel-like and intoxicating. I recommend reading each piece in order with a warm cup of honeyed tea by your side. Bonus points…

  • Luna Station Quarterly: To Bethany, With Teeth.

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    To Bethany, with Teeth: A tale of abuse and retribution set in a world where witchcraft is a science, where hexes and spells are available to anyone willing to expend a little patience and effort. I am really struggling with a synopsis for this one. I’ll just post an excerpt and tell you that you…

  • The Avenue Journal: The Water Anthology: Hot

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    It was as hot as all the things people like to say things could be as hot as: Hell. Balls. Fuck. Shit. Biscuits. I took off my t-shirt, dipped it in the water and tied it around my head. I was fine with doing so because I was wearing one of my colorful bras and anyone…

  • Magazine1: Saw Palm

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    Find my poem Saw Palm, a portrait of a brutal, quintessential Florida landscape, in the Winter 2025 edition of Sarasota, Florida’s Bookstore1’s publication, Magazine1. Kind of cool to be featured in a magazine in my hometown. An excerpt: Ever seen a sea of saw palm? Eon-deep black hole dark-as-nightgreen, scissor wrong-side-up double-UsWWWWWWWWWWWWWavingat you.Looking like a…

  • Winsom

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    Thought it would be fun to post the first story I’ve ever published. Here ya go. “Winsom.” WINSOM Bradenton, Florida, 1997 Hart’s desk shook. “Hey, my coffee!” Hart sprang from his swivel chair and lifted the mug, wiping its bottom and sides to stay the drips, but the damage was done. He sighed, watching his…

  • Graveside Press Illustrated Poetry Anthology: If…

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    Super honored to announce my poem If… has been selected for inclusion in an Illustrated Poetry Anthology to be published by Graveside Press. Since I cannot seem to do two types of art at once, I most likely will not be attempting to produce and submit the accompanying illustration. If anyone out there would like…

  • elsewhere magazine: The Ghost

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    The Ghost: a historic home’s long-dead owner is not pleased with the renovations. Published December 2024 by elsewhere magazine. This little prose poem was inspired by the buyers of my beloved purple home in Washington State, who promptly painted the interiors “millennial gray” and the outside a drab sage green, but really, it goes out…

  • Slipstream: The Gun Looks Wrong

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    The Gun Looks Wrong: In which a boy regrets playing Duck Hunt. This little retro-Gothic prose poem will be featured in the Fall 2025 issue of Slipstream Magazine.

  • Stuff in the queue.

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    Waiting for these pieces to show their ugly faces in early 2025: Magazine1: Saw Palm, a poem about a field of Saw Palmetto and the creatures that lurk within, featuring experimental imagery and vernacular that only a Sarasota-based magazine could understand. Illustrated Worlds Magazine: A reprint of The Scavenger. Or, technically, a print? The Scavenger…

  • JMWW Journal: Copperfield

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    Copperfield: An elderly woman in an oppressive small town has “let herself go.” Stopped gardening. Stopped bathing. Dyed all her clothes black. Has given up on humanity until a chance encounter with fourteen year-old Melody; a kindred spirit who’s determined to find herself…by getting lost. Published October 2024 by JMWW Journal. I am really proud…