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| Issue 20: | 15 Sept. 2023 |
| Prose poem: | 124 words |
By Guy Biederman
A Small Dark Light
You love light in the sky in the morning and you love light in the sky at night and you love darkness in your nap in between and you wonder if it’s possible to live on just light and satisfy your craving for it, and you love how your desire for light makes way for your love of darkness and how darkness shows you a different kind of light, the way silence reveals a different kind of song and you love to learn these simple parts of life, love how your life has turned a corner towards love, towards light, growing towards it like the spider plant from Mother’s garden in a pot on the sill that grows, grows still.
Guy Biederman
is the author of six books, including Translated from the Original: One-Inch Punch Fiction (Nomadic Press, 2022), Nova Nights (Nomadic Press, 2021), Edible Grace (KYSO Flash Press, 2019), and Soundings & Fathoms (Finishing Line Press).
His stories have appeared in many journals such as Bull, Carve, Flash Frontier, Flashback Fiction, great weather for Media, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Riddled with Arrows, The Ekphrastic Review, The Disappointed Housewife, and Exposition Review, where he was twice a Flash 405 winner. His work has recently received a Publisher’s Choice Award and an Editor’s Choice Award, and has been nominated for Best of The Net.
A former peace corps volunteer, gardener, and college creative-writing instructor, Guy lives on a houseboat with his wife and salty cat, and walks the planks daily.
Author’s website: https://www.guybiederman.com/
Author’s blog: This Day Afloat: Reflections of Life on the Water
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Quite, a prose poem by Biederman which was the winner of the “Triple-Q” Writing Challenge in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 11, January 2022); to hear him read this piece, see Recordings at his website.
⚡ Edible Grace: An e-Collection of 12 Micro-Prose in KYSO Flash (Issue 12, Summer 2019); click on Next Page at bottom left of each piece to access the next one.
Edible Grace is also available in print and offers bonus content, including six additional micro-prose and five more photographs by the author, plus a pen-and-ink drawing by Tula Biederman.
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