🌿 New work just published in The Broken Spine Journal!

✨ Gerard Sarnat — Ger After Words
✨ Scott Sharpe — The Babylon Project
✨ Huina Zheng — The Tree
✨ Barry Garelick — Bonita in 1973

Discover fresh voices + powerful stories:
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✨ New on The Broken Spine Journal ✨
Acclaimed poet Jason Ryberg brings "The Ocean Floor of My Life" & "Morning Walks Through the Cemetery" — vivid, unflinching portraits of lived experience.

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New at The Broken Spine Journal:
• “The Ocean Floor of My Life” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/t...
• “Morning Walks Through the Cemetery” — Jason Ryberg thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/m...
• “But I Am Not A Ghost” — Paul Smith thebrokenspinejournal.com/2025/08/09/b...

The Broken Spine Journal is live.

We publish raw, unfiltered writing from lived experience mental illness, addiction, grief, trauma, survival. No polish, no pretense just truth.

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We’re thrilled to share the first three pieces in our new Voices section! 🎉

✨ “Shattered Into Dust” by Millie
🔥 “Dead Inside” by David Ashley
💫 “No Erasing” by Hildae

Each of these poems offers a raw, real, and unapologetically honest perspective—exactly what we’re all about.