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July 2, 2025

A Carla Sarett Review of Grace Massey’s A Future with Bromeliads

Grace Massey comes late to the world poetry, after a career as an editor. Emotional maturity is on full display in her debut chapbook, A FUTURE WITH BROMELIADS — a book of family ghosts and…
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Featured Flash Fiction
July 1, 2025

Thanks for the Evidence – Tess Godhardt Flash Fiction

Thanks for the Evidence - Flash Fiction by Tess Godhardt featured in the Spring Issue of The SDL Review.
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Thanks for the Evidence by Tess Godhardt Each finger on your calloused hand left an imprint on my neck. I display each red indentation for the officer’s flashing camera. Are there any other injuries? I imagine grabbing the butcher’s knife from the kitchen drawer nearby, slicing myself from sternum to stomach, peeling my skin open, and pointing his camera to the six years’ worth of gouges your sharp words had carved into my insides like tally marks in a prisoner’s cell. Blowups of each and every gash would be paraded in front of the jury. You’d get ten years, easy. Your mother would cry, but not because she’s raised an abuser. She would weep because her baby boy doesn’t deserve to go to jail. Your alcoholic father would remain at home. Ten beers in. Unsurprised by who you’ve become. The officer patiently waits for the daydream to end. My vocal cords sting as the word “no,” makes its way up my sandpapered throat. Yet, the burn is simultaneously soothing. The choking may not get you ten years, but it does get me my freedom.
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Indie Spotlight / News
May 21, 2025

Indie Author Spotlight: Carla Sarett

Carla Sarett’s Any Excuse for a Party The 21 poems in Any Excuse for a Party are funny, or occasionally funny, but with soul— ranging from poems about Betty Boop to poems about grief therapy.  She wrote these…
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Indie Spotlight / News
May 21, 2025

Indie Author Spotlight: Molly Blake

Indie Spotlight: Molly Blake All Damien Bryant wants is to spend the rest of his undeath on his peaceful Alaskan homestead. He’s perfectly happy with his animals for company, the occasional climber’s blood for sustenance,…
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May 20, 2025

Spring Indie Staff Picks –

Staff Picks May2025
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