Category: Issue 18 – 2025
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There’s No Bull in Back Issues of Bon Appetit
by Melissa Whiteford St. Clair She said, “Grits, I hate ‘em.” The woman who’s battered copies of Bon Appetit magazine were just that, battered.The dog-eared pages of juice cum wine-stained publications stacked on bookshelveswith the most favored recipes floating to the top of the pile.Classic and contemporary dishes curated for cocktail parties and folded into…
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Chicken Dinner
by Richard Allen Taylor Twelve-piece family meal, I blurt from my driver’s seattoward the metallic croak of the order-taker’s voice. A bad decision, made under duress of hunger,condemns me to three, maybe four days of fried chicken, enough to feed a family of sixin one sitting. Living alone, I will have my fill of this…
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Confection Day
by Jennifer Weiss Inspired by A Man Milling Cacao into Chocolate with a Metate and a Mano, by unidentified Spanish artist, circa 1680-1780 (NC Museum of Art Collection) You kneel at the altar of your work, roll up pristine sleeves,power granite mano back and forth across metateto crush cacao to bitter powder you blend with…
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Southern Suburban Slumber
by Becca Spilka Becca Spilka was born and raised in South Carolina, spending most of her childhood in Irmo. She currently lives in Greenville, SC with her spouse and two cats, and she is studying to get an MA in English at Clemson. This will be her first published poem, and she is thrilled that…
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