My husband leaves our hotel room to ask for fresh towels, but the housekeepingwoman doesn’t speak any English (bless him, he’s earnestly telling her we’re

Flash creative nonfiction And Now, for the Final Act, Watch Him Choose the Circus by author Karen Baumgart. Published in Temple in a City literary journal.

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Creative Non-fiction by Tracie Adams I will lift you from embryonic waters, my heart a purring engine against your buttery skin. I will kiss your rosebud lips, feed you from my own body. You will w…

Skip forward five pages. Skip past the toddlers with the rubber knives and toddlers with the cardboard handcuffs and the toddlers in their severe uniforms.

To be treasured is something beautiful, but to be the one admiring the treasure can be something much better

by Karen Baumgart Oh love, don’t apologise—I understand.  It’s not you it’s me, right?  I wonder, though, could you maybe just hit send sometime? Let them see you’re anxious, how it comes...

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