October has shaped up to be one of the busiest months for WWS publications! Congratulations to all the women who were published in October.
From Ryane Nicole Granados‘ “Home-Schooling Away from Home” at LA Parent:
Picture a child working on lessons at the kitchen table and you’ve pictured just a tiny sliver of the home-schooling landscape in SoCal.
From “Mimesis” by Maylin Tu at Exposition Review:
I have decided to become my father, to put on his body like a second skin.
I practice rolling my head back and forth around on my neck, like a bobblehead. I put my hands on my hips and shake one finger up and down in front of me. My face tightens into an exaggerated grimace as my finger picks up speed.
From Laura Warrell‘s “I Gave Up on Love, and It Was One of the Best Decisions I Ever Made” at Huffington Post:
At the end of our date in August 2018, Justin escorted me to my car, where he nervously kissed me. When I kissed him back, he cheered, pumping his fists in the air like he’d won something. I walked from the curb to my car, and when I turned around, he was watching me, beaming.
From “documents of light” by Helena Lipstadt at About Place Journal:
when the knock comes on the door
what do we take with us?
do we carry everything in one thin suitcase?
are we walking are we running?
From “The Coyotes of India Street” by Whitney Easton at Animal:
I wake to the sound of yipping in the night. Yipping turns to howling and a chorus of coyote song ensues, echoing throughout the ravine below. My chihuahua perks his ears to stand guard. The pitch and frequency intensify as more join in.
From Mia Nakaji Monnier “What My Name Says about Who I Am” at Zora:
I became Mia Nakaji Monnier in college. I didn’t change my name so much as reveal more of it. While I’d always gone by Mia Monnier before then, the rest of my name appeared on all of my official documents: Mia Gabrielle Nakaji Monnier, a combination of Japanese and French, reflecting both of my parents. In college, I learned that my face alone rarely said enough about who I was.
From Lisbeth Coiman‘s “De Mujer a Mujer” at Lady/Liberty/Lit:
To Venezuela.
Mujer, I talk to you without hair on my tongue
As clear as this blue sky over our heads
Here is a mojito
Take a sip
I don’t have a drawer inside to hold unspoken truths
From “Prayer for a Sunday Morning” by Deborah Edler Brown at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Divine wisdom,
Please show me how
To breathe
When the smell of hatred
Is hot and dank against my cheek
From Lindsey Skillen‘s “Labor Day” at Cosmonauts Avenue:
I’m not the kind of woman who would participate in a threesome, which is exactly why I went. I’m lately trying to be a different sort of woman—one who can pull off an edgy haircut. A sort of Brooklyn-blonde pageboy kind of haircut. I’m Jean Seberg from Breathless in my mind.
From “We are our own Multitude: Los Angeles’ Black Panamanian Community” by Jenise Miller at Boom California:
On a Saturday morning in late October, public workers in downtown Los Angeles block off the stretch of Broadway from Olympic Boulevard to Hill Street. Around 10 am, a crowd gathers, donned in blue and red garments, shirts embroidered with mola, white polleras with bright-colored pom-poms, or Panama flags draped across their backs, to celebrate the Annual Panamanian Independence Day Parade.
From “An Immigrant Mom’s Push for Understanding” by Tanya Ko Hong at LA Parent:
My children bring magic into my life. However, there is no map to navigate being a parent in a multicultural society, especially when you are an immigrant parent.
Congratulations to Diana Love for having two poems published at Kelp Journal! From “Thrown Back in the Surf:”
Before the sense of self
there must be some surroundings.
In my green blue days of youth
the Valley was a smog-wrapped bubble,
a satellite apart, a cushion-edged suburban haze
Congratulations to Peggy Dobreer for having her poetry published in Aeolian Harp Series, Vo. 5!
Congratulations to Désirée Zamorano whose story “Bobby’s Leave 1968” was published in ¡PA’QUE TU LO SEPAS! edited by Angel Luis Colón!
Congratulations to Liz Harmer whose story, “Decisive Action,” was published at PRISM International!