A Plate of Pandemic

Published Quarterly on the Solstices and Equinoxes

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Creativity in Times of Crisis

Author: William Pruitt

William Pruitt is a fiction writer, storyteller, poet, and an Assistant Editor with Narrative Magazine He has published stories and poems in such places as Ploughshares, Anderbo.com, Otis Nebula , Crack of the Spine Literary Magazine, Midway, Indiana Voice Journal, Hypertext, the Tipton Poetry Journal, Leaping Clear and Cottonwood. His most recent book, The Binding Dance, is a sequence of poems thematically unified by the need for story in the dreams of time and the self. Characterized by direct speech, it avoids literary affectation, while preserving the values of sound and metaphor.

Late Fall 2020

Yesterday I walked down the long hill toward the lake horizon, Ontario moved inscrutably northeast. So many leaves on the ground whose little remaining color had leached out, and legions of mares’ tails in the western sky curved firmly as if just brushed, preceded by spaced paw prints overhead, their eastward direction signifying the coming […]

When Everything Gets Back to Normal

    By William Pruitt     We’re living in a bungalow in Western Florida when Wolf Boy attacks. My wife gets out of the house while I distract   A second, larger intruder joins the fray we get in the car and tear down the coast road past the causeway   We stop at […]

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