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A Beautiful Sight in Monrovia
This morning, I came across this wonderful display of American flags in Monrovia, honoring our veterans. And I just loved it. The flags waving in the sunshine, the beautiful old trees, and that big, cheerful THANK YOU VETERANS sign. I found myself unexpectedly moved. There’s something extraordinary about people who are willing to sacrifice so much for…
Falling for Your Book All Over Again: All Treats, No Tricks
Halloween is here, which means it’s time for costumes, candy, and pretending we aren’t going to eat the Reese’s Cups before the trick-or-treaters arrive. I’m particularly good at that last one, although my credibility tends to disappear somewhere around the third peanut butter cup. This year, we’ve decided to hand out something a little different…
Surprisingly Useful Things I Learned from Incredibly Dodgy Spam (So You Don’t Have To)No. 2
Is Amazon Hiding Your Book? No. But Can Readers Find It? I’m opening the bombs so you don’t have to. Surprisingly Useful Things I Learned (we can learn) from Incredibly Dodgy Spam. The Incredibly Dodgy Email Apparently, Amazon has a secret department devoted to finding problems with my books, and its employees are terribly concerned…
Watching
watching, intransitive verb We’re watching when we’re spying we’re watching when we’re afraid we’re watching the twisting train wreck we just can’t look away we’re watching for the sun to push down the moon we’re searching for a pleasant thought to push away the gloom we’re watching for the stranger looking us in the eye…
It’s Lit Mag Week!
This week, we’re celebrating #LitMagWeek and the independent literary magazines that make room for new voices, strange ideas, experiments, risks, and work that might not fit neatly anywhere else. Current Words Publishing is proud to sponsor Instant Noodles Literary Magazine, curated by the Old Scratch Press Collective. And because we believe that literary magazines should create…
Current Words Publishing and Old Scratch Press Congratulate 2026 Best of the Net Nominees
by Robert Fleming Best of the Net 2026 Nominees Visual Art selections by Robert Fleming and Alan Bern Andy Gordon, Car Side View Mirrors Joseph Barbella, Horse Power Robert Fleming, Frozen Sanctuary Creative Non-Fiction selections by Nadja Maril Tamara-Lee Brereton-Karabetsos, From Cage to Street Patty Perreault Bennett, Our Christmas Surprise Fiction / Flash Fiction selections by…
Where Did You Find Your Editor?
Often in the late spring or early fall parents on tours around the college campus would pass me as I went from class to class. The tour guides, some of whom had been my students, would say, “We never use adjuncts or part-time teachers here. All of our faculty are full-time.” Huh, really? That’s what…
Loneliness: One of Life’s Strangest Contradictions
We spend much of our lives searching for connection. Friendships. Family. Romance. Community. We want to know that someone sees us, understands us, and is glad we’re here. Yet after enough disappointment or heartbreak, something curious can happen. Solitude begins to feel safer than closeness, and the walls we built to protect ourselves become increasingly…
Vicissitude
Vicissitude noun: a fluctuation of state or condition.Life rarely stays one thing for long.
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