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IGNORE, IGNORE by Heidi Vornbrock Roosa

IGNORE, IGNORE by Heidi Vornbrock Roosa

Marie noticed that their mother hadn’t re-braided Lulu’s hair in three days. It frizzed out in light brown puffs from each turn of the weave, though the sun-gold ends still curled in a perfect Shirley Temple coil below the elastic hairbands. Lulu sat at the kitchen table, picking at the edge of the chipped copper […]

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: 1781 by Kim Roberts

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE: 1781 by Kim Roberts

The sachem’s council fire is extinguished, the few survivors of the contagion scattered into the woods. The Governor has ordered all returning soldiers to stop outside of towns and be inspected for signs of pestilence. The Selectmen are bound to ensure those with the pox be removed to a place of safety, their clothes burned. […]

3QR AUTHOR BIOS / 2015

3QR AUTHOR BIOS / 2015

Featured Writer:  Emerging writer Amanda Doran lives in Baltimore, Maryland where she was born and raised. She teaches middle school English and creative writing. She earned a BS in English from Towson University and an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. This is her first story published in a national literary journal. Gale Acuff has […]