dispatches from the dregs of Florida.
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The Almost: a school bus driver passes the early morning hours in rural Florida reading her favorite romance novel while idling in her bus before the kids show up. As the sensual language of the book, “Heather’s Rake,” provides her…
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Slipstream Press: The Gun Looks Wrong
“The Gun Looks Wrong” – a poem about a game of Duck Hunt gone, well, Slipstream, is featured in the 45th Annual issue (“Strange Days” theme) of Slipstream magazine. Founded in 1980, Slipstream features the work of both new and…
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Graveside Press: If: Gathered Here Today (anthology)
My poem “If” is included in Gathered Here Today: An open casket of art and poetry, an illustrated anthology produced by Graveside Press. If you like spooky poetry, you can buy a copy (it’s absolutely bursting with unsettling gems.) An…
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The Scavenger
“I watched a wake of turkey vultures slurp up bits of cow…” The Scavenger, a rural Florida gothic serial killer tale, first dramatized by Creepy Podcast and later picked up by Illustrated Worlds Magazine – is reprinted below. (First, though, this photo…taken from…
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Green Hills Literary Lantern: Ma’Donna
The Harborside Mobil Stop-n-Go shines its beacon, its big old sign with all the gas prices, the ones that go back and forth a few cents every day for reasons I’ll never know, way up high for the boats to…
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BULL: Spiral
She spits through lips painted green. She means disrespect but I see DNA. In spit is a stamp that can clone or convict you. I suppose that an artist’s work, to its maker, does both. I can understand the desire…
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To Bethany, with teeth.(Reprinted here, read in full.)
To Bethany, with teeth. debuted in Luna Station Quarterly earlier this Spring. I am reprinting it here today in full. An odd little morality tale featuring witchcraft gone wrong…gone right. (Painting above, Buried in the Sand, by me.) To Bethany,…
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Ink In Thirds: In Another Life
In Another Life: A study of mania and its inevitable crash. And also, orange juice. Originally published in the Spring/Summer issue of Ink in Thirds. In Another Life James lies on the motel bed. Outside, a tinsel rain begins to fall. …
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BULL: Spiral
Spiral: A young art school chick and an aging male nude art model’s friendship snaps and irreparably unwinds. Did they ever really know each other at all? Spoiler alert: NOPE! To be published later this year in BULL. Painting above…
Kelli Dianne Rule: Author 