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From the December @WrathBT - a harrowing account of illness and parental love from Jennifer Crystal's 'One Tick Stopped the Clock':
“Can’t you give her something for the pain?” My mother pleaded with whoever was in the room, someone in pink scrubs.
“We can’t give her anything until a doctor sees her.”
“Then, please get a doctor,” my mother cried.
"They’re all busy with other patients,” the woman replied. “There are several people in more serious condition than your daughter.”
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A selection a day from our last issue of the year. Here, powerful poetry in December's @WBT.
"Hearts and Minds," by Nathan Didier
We came to provide help that you didn’t want.
We came to provide security you didn’t need.
We came to provide schools that you didn’t care about.
We came to provide a government that didn’t work.
We came to provide democracy you didn’t understand.
We came to provide infrastructure you wouldn’t take care of.
We came to provide a better life that you didn’t ask for.
And we kept spilling our blood and couldn’t understand how you could be so ungrateful.
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photo by @wrathbtpoetry
ALT photo of the ocean with looming clouds
Catch up on the last @WBT of the year!
Fiction, Michelle Brady, "Thirty Broken Birds"
"[we] drove dazed & shaking back to camp. But before we left, they agreed to provide us water and internet, so the Major said all in all, it was a successful journey."
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“Once upon a time he’d believed that art had a moral value: a rightness conferred by the universe on that which was beautiful to look at. Then he spent time in ballet companies. He’d seen what these beautiful people did to each other. “
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GREAT ISSUE @WrathBT
Our MAY ISSUE is up! Full of fiction, non-fiction, and POETRY! Read, relish, retweet! wrath-bearingtree.com
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The new COLLATERAL LITERARY JOURNAL is out! Come support our best buds (and literary conference table pals) at Collateral! The military writing community is a close one, folks. Amazing work from writers on themes of war, peace, loss, love.
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It's almost Derby time. Here, editor @Andria816 reviews C.E. Morgan's amazing 'The Sport of Kings,' about intersections between racism & horse racing. It's fascinating, moving, bonkers, Darwinian, everything. Did you know the man who rode Aristides to victory was a former slave?
As @amalieflynn likes to say, "New tee, who dis?"
If you get one, DM us a picture! Anonymous Twitter person will make an inept awkward collage.
(These are SUPER comfortable & high-quality. It's actually all we wear at @WrathBT. None of us owns a single other item of clothing.)
What?! It's our editor-in-chief, Travis Klempan.
When people say the writing community is competitive and not mutually supportive, we whisper, "Have you heard about the....*military* writing community?"
@MilspeakF @tracycrow1 @NeedBirds
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Happy 4/20.
I think we are all chuckling our heads off about this. Well played, @wrathbtpoetry .
Come take a class from a former @WrathBT editor-in-chief & fiction editor! Who, amazingly, has nothing to do with this Twitter feed!
5-week sesh in which she will do nothing but gossip about @AdrianBonenber1 . Just kidding. We will read selections from women writers & workshop.
I'm so excited to be teaching this online class for @storycircle ! "Writing the Lives of Women" will feature excerpts from a diverse group of women writers, and we will workshop our own writing as well. All materials will be provided for free. Check it!:
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Poetry Editor in the house!!!!!
Me making my unboxing my new book of poems RIPE published by @thealienbuddha and out on Monday video
IT'S POETRY MONTH
((you can read that either in a chipper, perky voice, or a very low, Doomsday-sounding voice))
In any case, come read the beautiful "Something Like Nightfall" by Gail Nielsen in @WrathBT:
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