The year in publications has gotten off to a great start for Women Who Submit! Congratulations to everyone who had work published in January.
From Soleil David‘s “Seoul in October” at Cleaver:
If I could be anywhere
………..in the Fall
it would be Korea
walking rubberized pavement
………..to the top of Namsan Tower
surprised by snow in October
From Melissa Chadburn‘s “The Wounded Parts of People” at Shondaland:
Nobody needs to warn me about the wounded parts of people. There was that time I worked at a Level 12 residential treatment center for adolescent boys. It was called Mid-Valley Youth Center — a home for boys who stopped smelling like children. Some of us were fooled by this change in scent, by the wild sprites of hair off their face. Some days, we thought they were men. Their crude gestures, or refusals to eat, or to follow direction — we thought we were in a power struggle with them. Some judges even forgot they were boys, and gave them sterner sentences in places for men. The deal was, they could do more time at the treatment center with less restrictions, or less time at juvenile hall. Continue reading “A WWS Publication Roundup for January”