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  • Word to the Wise

    by Jennifer Frost If you stray between the corn rows, you’ll get Lost. A baby near here died that way; her Name was Gretel. Diaper dragging, she stepped Past the sleeping dogs and through the broken Fence, her mother watching soaps and sipping Tea. She noticed when the sun went down, when Gretel was asleep

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  • Wisconsin

    by Jennifer Frost Along a gravel road, there lay a farm, A range of ground owned by my relatives. Their kitchen overlooked the bottom field Where hay grew silver-green around the barn And horses stood in stalls by cows whose milk Was sold. A diesel tractor pulled the plough That tilled three hundred acres. Mud-caked

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  • Evening Street Review #35, Autumn 2022 includes my newest story, Streets of Sorrow.

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  • Of Course, I Didn’t

    The night my parents reported me missing, the police came over and searched the house. Missing kids can turn up in closets where they’ve dozed off playing hide-and-seek.

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  • Meet Rock Salt Journal

    My newest story, Of Course, I Didn’t, appears in the Fall 2022 issue, NOW LIVE at rocksaltjournal.com.

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  • Story Archive

    Visit my Story Archive for pieces from my past.

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  • In 2012, I was working as a bookseller at Barnes and Noble, the year they launched the first Nook e-reader.

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  • Not Another Book List

    These are not suggestions. You’ve heard enough of those. Read on if book recommendations bore you.

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  • Hitting the Press

    The Streets of Sorrow, a short story inspired by true events, will appear in print in the coming weeks.

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  • Coming Soon

    My newest story, Of Course I Didn’t, has been accepted for publication this fall in the online literary magazine, Rock Salt Journal.

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