2022 Digging Press Chapbook Results

WINNERS
Morgan Christie – People Without Wings (fiction) and Rachelle Parker – Together We Remember the Gazelle (poetry)
Continue reading 2022 Digging Press Chapbook Results

EditorMarch 11, 2022March 11, 2022

red tomato beside green and orange round fruit

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Poetry No. 67 – Joanna Cleary

They once knew fame:
tomatls, pommes d’amour,
ornamentals sought only
for their beauty. Continue reading Poetry No. 67 – Joanna Cleary

EditorMarch 7, 2022December 30, 2022

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Poetry No. 66 – Vincente Perez

There’s a message in a bottle
Floating somewhere for me to find
Addressed by time and
Inside is a ticket home. Continue reading Poetry No. 66 – Vincente Perez

EditorMarch 2, 2022December 30, 2022

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Poetry No. 65 – Patrick T. Reardon

Ash the milk.
Ash the caped-boy hero snapshot.
Ash Blacktop, signboards,
white t-shirt boy. Continue reading Poetry No. 65 – Patrick T. Reardon

EditorFebruary 25, 2022December 30, 2022

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Poetry No. 64 – Virginia Laurie

Let’s not kid ourselves;
the night is not beautiful Continue reading Poetry No. 64 – Virginia Laurie

EditorFebruary 22, 2022December 30, 20221 Comment

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Poetry No. 63 – Ceridwen Hall

my younger sister lights a candle; she sings Continue reading Poetry No. 63 – Ceridwen Hall

EditorFebruary 18, 2022December 30, 2022

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Hybrid No. 2 – Mandy-Suzanne Wong

She is born knowing how to swim. Her first few days of life, she spends suspended in the plankton with all the other drifters, larval fishes, jellyfishes, just-hatched cephalopods, copepods, diatoms, microscopic flora, plastic nurdles following the ocean’s whims. Continue reading Hybrid No. 2 – Mandy-Suzanne Wong

EditorJanuary 28, 2022April 2, 2023

Poetry, Volume 8 2021, Writing

Poetry No. 62 – Dimitri Reyes

On every counter and beside
the entertainment center,
space is claimed by little wings plucking harps.
Trumpets leading
an unknown charge of credit cards. Continue reading Poetry No. 62 – Dimitri Reyes

EditorDecember 1, 2021February 13, 2022

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Short Fiction, Stories, Volume 8 2021, Writing

Stories No. 90 – Feng Gooi

A stranger called and I picked up my phone.

“Hello, how are you doing today?” said the voice from the other end. The voice belonged to a woman, an older woman. It was deep and luxurious, a perfect balance of grace and authority. Just from that simple hello, I could hear the weight of experience, a lifetime of training in forming the perfect first impression.

Continue reading Stories No. 90 – Feng Gooi

EditorOctober 27, 2021April 23, 2023

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Flash Fiction, Volume 8 2021, Writing

Flash No. 26 – Jannitt Ark

Before I met you, we went to the same party, but I don’t remember seeing you there. I like to pretend I was strangely compelled by the sight of you staggering around in a threadbare coat and loosened tie, your lips red from the bottle of wine you clutched, its green neck peeking halfway out of a paper bag. Continue reading Flash No. 26 – Jannitt Ark

EditorOctober 20, 2021October 20, 2021

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Flash No. 25 – Jason Arment

A car’s life can be hard to imagine, but maybe not so difficult when the automobile comes back home one last time. Like most objects in the physical universe we occupy, it’s not hard to see when a car is going to wear out. Continue reading Flash No. 25 – Jason Arment

EditorOctober 13, 2021October 20, 2021

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Flash No. 24 – Lúa Margita Brau

There once was a girl who lived in a little house in a pine wood. The pines were tall and thick with needles, and above them was a clear deep blue sky with large white clouds in it, solid-seeming white clouds that moved swiftly on a brisk wind, like boats on their way to some place or another. Continue reading Flash No. 24 – Lúa Margita Brau

EditorOctober 6, 2021October 20, 2021

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Stories No. 89 – Jeanne Althouse

Lena was raised on violin lessons and minimal parental supervision. Maestro Ludwig, her first violin teacher, was spiritually her only family. After early morning lessons, before she went off to school, they liked to relax together on the cool sheets of his unmade bed in his private studio in the Hyatt Regency, her violin lying between them. They smelled plumeria and coconut-scented sunscreen lotion from Kaanapali Beach through the one open window. Continue reading Stories No. 89 – Jeanne Althouse

EditorSeptember 22, 2021April 23, 2023

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Flash No. 23 – Rich Ives

I cannot rehearse the pathways of smoke, but I spend my entire life on the journey, my one particular part, small, wingless, and flattened. You would not guess it when meeting me alone and my host can be nearly gone, emaciated. I place my eggs upon her hair. But there’s a second host and more further south. I could migrate and release my benefactor. I could trade in my habitat. But in this way deceptive birds might find me sailing. Continue reading Flash No. 23 – Rich Ives

EditorSeptember 15, 2021October 20, 2021

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Stories No. 88 – Elinol López

They offered me a job at the clinic near my house, and I took It because I had to keep up with rent while mami visited home country to nurse her mama for three months. I did not mind that It was a graveyard shift since the place was just a few bus stops away. My task was to receive packages and log their arrival in a binder. The delivery men wore khaki overalls and never spoke. As of now, those are the facts I can recall. Continue reading Stories No. 88 – Elinol López

EditorSeptember 8, 2021April 23, 2023

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Flash No. 22 – Richard Krause

Penn State University would periodically send down these studies on dairy cows. The farmers would have to implement them whether they liked it or not, but it was always the cause of ridicule, of mockery, that the scientists at Penn State hadn’t gotten close to the udders of a single cow, had never been kicked by one, never saw the mastitis their directives were meant to clear up,… Continue reading Flash No. 22 – Richard Krause

EditorAugust 25, 2021October 20, 2021

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Flash No. 21 – Josh Dale

You go to flip the omelet over, and it breaks. Ever so gently a turn, like you always do, and it still breaks. The innards are exposed. The eggs will continue to harden and soon burn. Continue reading Flash No. 21 – Josh Dale

EditorAugust 11, 2021October 20, 2021

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Flash No. 20 – KP Vogell

The author confesses that this story has been written entirely by mistake. It begins with the mistake of an alarm clock opening and keeps piling them on: a stereotypical main character, a two-dimensional significant other, an unconvincing villain. Continue reading Flash No. 20 – KP Vogell

EditorAugust 4, 2021October 20, 20211 Comment

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Stories No. 87 – T. B. Grennan

And then, slow as you like, Fernando reaches back and peels his cheeks apart. Staring over one shoulder, his lips wet from kissing, his hair still perfect despite all that rolling around.
#Erotica Continue reading Stories No. 87 – T. B. Grennan

EditorJune 30, 2021April 23, 2023

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Stories No. 86 – John Francis Istel

“How many candles do you see? Mother? How many? Can you see how many? Sit up. It’s your daughter Eve. Count, Mother. There are 69.” Continue reading Stories No. 86 – John Francis Istel

EditorJune 18, 2021April 23, 2023

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Every First & Fifteenth by Dimitri Reyes – Sign up to receive notification Continue reading Every First & Fifteenth

EditorJune 10, 2021August 21, 2021

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Flash No. 19 – JP Infante

In a brothel outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, an English archaeologist finds a clay tablet with Latin writings. After careful study, historians believe it is the reproduction of a letter written by John the Apostle. Continue reading Flash No. 19 – JP Infante

EditorMay 28, 2021December 2, 2021

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Flash No. 18 – Denise Tolan

Read the Medication Guide that comes with AMBIEN before you begin taking the pill, or unless you can’t sleep. Which is ironic. Continue reading Flash No. 18 – Denise Tolan

EditorMay 19, 2021November 14, 2021

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Flash No. 17 – Sue Mell

I am folding my mom’s fancy clothes. Bright patterned dresses and diaphanous floral blouses from Bloomingdale’s. Bespoke wool pants, now impossibly baggy, from a shop on Madison. All the finery she once wore to Broadway plays and opera at the Met, to museums and lunches at upscale Manhattan restaurants. Continue reading Flash No. 17 – Sue Mell

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