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She presented her poetry collection, \"same ball of","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:29:33","modifiedDate":"2024-01-21 16:29:35","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:29:35","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":2},"status":"publish"},{"id":1137,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/william-ross\/","name":"william-ross","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"William Ross","excerpt":"I was holding a shovel, a useful\ntool for doing two things at one time.\nThe long handle is for carrying\nand for pushing the blade into dirt,\nscooping a cup of earth and placing\nit nearby, making two things\u2014\na hill and a hole.","content":"William Ross is a Canadian writer and visual artist living in Toronto. 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No words, just a drumbeat.\n\u00a0\nYou pile sand over my calves and I am 16 again\u2014\nB caressing blades of grass across my knees.","content":"Eli V. Rahm (they\/them) is a queer writer from Virginia. 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Laura holds a MFA from The University of New","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:14:13","modifiedDate":"2024-01-21 16:14:16","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:14:16","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":57},"status":"publish"},{"id":1127,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/patricia-wentzel\/","name":"patricia-wentzel","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Patricia Wentzel","excerpt":"It is the between time.\nPatchy snow reveals the brown dregs\nof last year\u2019s plenty.\nThe eruption of green that is Spring\nwaits for warmer days, shorter nights.\nBut the grouse know in their bones,","content":"Patricia Wentzel lives at the confluence of two rivers and a messy, satisfying life. 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His poems have appeared in NDQ, The Pierian, Boomer Literary Magazine, Strange Horizons,","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:09:45","modifiedDate":"2024-01-21 16:09:47","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:09:47","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":20},"status":"publish"},{"id":1123,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/morgan-pearse-2\/","name":"morgan-pearse-2","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Morgan Pearse","excerpt":"in the blistering pale\ntwilight from the cold\nshadows you eyed\nme and we didnt fuck\nthen but later that night your\nsharpened teeth brushed me here\n\u00a0\non the clavicle and i screamed did you hear\nnow i\u2019m an indoor cat pale","content":"Morgan Lacomba Pearse is a disabled queer writer and artist based the Hudson Valley, New York. She is the author","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:06:56","modifiedDate":"2024-01-21 16:06:59","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:06:59","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":9},"status":"publish"},{"id":1121,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/b-hayer\/","name":"b-hayer","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"B. Hayer","excerpt":"38. And alone? Yes. Without anyone? Yes. Left alone? Undecided. Who\u2019s fault is it anyway? I was left alone. She is asking questions. She is asking the questions now. She likes to swim. I can swim. She is a woman, and I am a man.","content":"B. 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Loomis was a nemophilist (haunter of the woods) until her hikes in upstate New York were abruptly ended","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:01:38","modifiedDate":"2024-01-21 16:01:40","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-01-21 16:01:40","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":29},"status":"publish"},{"id":1117,"link":"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/beth-sherman\/","name":"beth-sherman","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Beth Sherman","excerpt":"Recipe for a Silent Child. Place child in a medium-size, non-stick pot.\nAdd water and boil. Add cabbage, barley,\ncukes, diced potatoes, carrots, and onions,\nSeason with thyme and a dash of red pepper.\nCover and simmer on a low flame.","content":"Beth Sherman's poetry has been published in Hawaii Pacific Review, Synecdoche, Lime Hawk, Rust + Moth, The Evansville Review, Stone","author":{"name":"Archive","link":false},"date":false,"dateGMT":"2024-01-21 15:58:48","modifiedDate":"2024-01-21 15:59:18","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-01-21 15:59:18","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"closed","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/passionfruitreview.com\/category\/issue-6\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Issue 6<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":48},"status":"publish"}]