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Wish List
by David Rodriguez Whether it’s one year or five decadesbefore we board an ark of silica ceramics,of flexible insulation blankets or whateverwe have (oak timber and tallow, like do-it-yourself Vikings), may I be donewith all my pettiness and grief,all my lists of tired resentmentsand whimpering dreams of renewal,bedside medicines, phone calls tono one and profile Continue reading
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Contributor Book: M F Drummy
Contributor M F Drummy, another of our Best of the Net nominees, has a debut poetry collection coming out in September/October. The book is available for pre-order at a discount through Main Street Rag bookstore: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/perdido-m-f-drummy/ Advance praise for M F Drummy’s Perdido: Now and then you read poems that remind you how irreducible and Continue reading
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Two Contributor Books: Michael Dwayne Smith & Jeffrey Heath
Contributor Michael Dwayne Smith, recently selected as one of our Best of the Net nominees, has a new poetry collection coming out in September from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. The book is available for pre-order now (20% off through 8/15!): https://sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-na-gig-editions/michael-dwayne-smith-music/ In Shaking Music from the Angry Air, Michael Dwayne Smith keeps poems close to their source: mortality, Continue reading
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2026 Best of the Net Nominees
January House Literary Journal is excited to announce our nominations for the 2026 Best of the Net anthology. The Best of the Net is an awards-based anthology designed to grant a platform to a diverse and growing collection of writers and publishers who are building an online literary landscape that seeks to break free of traditional publishing. Congratulations and Continue reading
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Conversations With My GP
by Letty McHugh Would you describe your experience as dizziness, light-headedness, or vertigo? My brain has broken and now I’m constantly aware I am a stationary body on a spinning planet in a spinning galaxy in a spinning universe. I would describe it as that bit on a roller coaster when you pass the peak Continue reading
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Concrete Elegy
by Sofia Bagdade Yesterday I fell off my bike. The truth is,under lamplight, the bruises rich as berries& blue too from all the pinching, when my knees hit the pavement it was prayeror the white pews peeled with paint and backsweat, our thighs almost touching on velvet seats. White-hot moment of suspense, my hipbent to Continue reading
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The Last Umrah
by Aaqilah Mangarun The darkness of the night blanketed the sandy terrain outside my bus window. I was already bored beyond my mind with the desert view during daylight, and the night didn’t do it any better. My eyelids threatened to shut close—it was around 8 PM, I think—but I didn’t want to fall asleep. Continue reading
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Subsidence
by Francis Dylan Waguespack Millimeters (Annual Measurement)In Terrebonne Parish, subsidence occurs at a rateof thirty-five millimeters per year, a disappearance actmeasured in a stretching distance between step and ground,in water lines on buildings like faded magic-markercharting growth spurts on your childhood bedroom door.The Corps calls this relative sea level rise, a bureaucrat’s term for drowning.Once, Continue reading
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Dangling Participle by Gail Purdy
Gail Purdy is a writer and visual artist living on the west coast of British Columbia. She is the runner up recipient of the 2021 International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir. Her writing has appeared in the 2021 Amy Award Anthology, The Bluebird Word, Last Syllable, Quillkeepers Missing Pieces Grief Anthology, Witcraft, rhizomag, and Four… Continue reading
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Mom’s Mom’s Mom’s Music Box
by Nora Esme Wagner Mom’s music box is being auctioned off on eBay. Not her exact one—that disappeared with her. Delia and I upended the entire house, opening air vents, the false back board in her closet, the paint cans left in the garage from when she decided to paint all the walls lemon. She Continue reading
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