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Community, Our Community, Volume 8 2021, Writing

Community No. 61

In today’s Community, we are honored to re-introduce prose and poetry by Denise Tolan and by Zoë Biggs.

Denise Tolan

Mercury Rising

“I see my dead father from time to time. He drives through our old neighborhood in a late model Mercury;…”

Crack the Spine
May 20, 2020

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Thank a Bad Girl

“There are, of course, bad girls.  
Bad girls who open wide for a Xanax and close tightly for a snort…”

Storyscape
December 2018

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Mouth Open Wide

“First, he ARRIVED – like the swans at Capistrano, or aliens in the desert, or, more likely, a flaming dessert…”

Hobart
February 2018

Zoë Biggs

Missed Opportunity

“His skinny legs protrude into the narrow bus aisle, blocking entrance and exit for all. Hunched forward, chest hovering close to his knees, he begins to tut softly. The bus lurches forward around the corner into Kentish Town. A wall of traffic defiantly halts any further progress. I am uneasy…”

Reflex Fiction
January 11, 2020

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You

“You walked up and queued to the side of me instead of behind. I vaguely understood because space was at a premium in this pharmacy, but still, an anxiety bloomed within me…”

Reflex Fiction
August 13, 2020

Our Community feature is an opportunity for authors to introduce a new audience to their previously published works.

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