This is my sacrament. I’m a boy who lost his toys, all of them. I’m often sick, my shadow limps. I hate how quietly I answer the phone, how I used to eat pages from books. In my dreams, I do laundry or place my palms and forehead against a wall. I stand too long in showers too warm, I’m melodramatic and frightened, steal candy bars from mom & pop dime shops, break windows at night with bricks.
Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2017-2018), is the author of A Theory of Lipstick (Main Street Rag: 2013), winner of a Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award.
On October 11, 2016, in the midst of extensive book tours, writers Sam Ligon and Robert Lopez visited La Crosse, where they conducted dynamic readings (including a joint-reading of one story they co-wrote) and they presented a craft talk to students enrolled in Matt Cashion’s and William Stobb’s creative writing classes. Additionally, they offered to … Continue reading Craft Talk: Robert Lopez and Sam Ligon, dynamic duo, deliver flashes of insight on flash fiction and short-shorts
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
Never teach them to hunt or run free, always obey, never wade in the stream.
