Have something to say, and say it clearly. That is the only secret.
-Matthew Arnold
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Lazy Jazz Birds by Thomas J. Bibb
A couple doubt and dance around the idea of divorce in a community that won’t permit it.
Thomas J. Bibb is a sophomore at SMU from Huntsville, Alabama.
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A Season’s Dusk & Dawn by Wyatt Withers
A son negates his dad in selfish hopes of being happy without a wife or children. His dad does everything to urge him otherwise.
Wyatt Withers is a senior at SMU from Phoenix, Arizona.
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A Stagnant Winter in July by Jim Woodson
A man knows he doesn’t have much more time with his family and thinks of what might happen.
Jim Woodson is a sophomore at SMU from Jacksonville, Florida.
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Note from the editor: Please feel free to submit short stories, poems or any other forms of art to blackwood.thecreativereview@gmail.com for publication in the first edition.
We want your work! Criteria: Short stories must be at least 1000 words. Poems must be at least 6 lines. All submissions must be titled and include the artists name and hometown within the submission email.
View some of the Editor’s work for examples of formatting and structure.
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Single in Viareggio By Bruce Blackwood
A young American abandons his fiance in Italy and finds himself
drunk and lost on the Mediterranean coast.
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