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✨ISSUE FOURTEEN IS HERE!✨
FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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Day 12: “Child’s Play” by Angie Macri in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social. LOVE LOVE LOVE the structure of this poem! www.emptyhousepress.com/issue-fourte...
Issue Fourteen - Angie Macri — Empty House Press
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August 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Day 12: “Child’s Play” by Angie Macri in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social. LOVE LOVE LOVE the structure of this poem! www.emptyhousepress.com/issue-fourte...
"[...] engineering / meets art in the cross of cap and girt, perfect interval / of line and space." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Jennifer Saunders — Empty House Press
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July 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"[...] engineering / meets art in the cross of cap and girt, perfect interval / of line and space." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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"In the nettled fields of my mother’s memory, she saw them, / tawny stalkers slipping through the long grass, calling / shy lovers in the late glow of summer nights." — Maggie Doyle in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Maggie Doyle — Empty House Press
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July 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"In the nettled fields of my mother’s memory, she saw them, / tawny stalkers slipping through the long grass, calling / shy lovers in the late glow of summer nights." — Maggie Doyle in EHP Issue Fourteen
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"It was an old part of the boneyard, people with eighteenth and nineteenth-century surnames: Barnabus, Mutterer, Winthrop, Cornelius." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Regina Rae Weiss — Empty House Press
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July 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"It was an old part of the boneyard, people with eighteenth and nineteenth-century surnames: Barnabus, Mutterer, Winthrop, Cornelius." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social) in EHP Issue Fourteen
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"The bothy has two windows, thick walls, a white / my mother would deem spotless, at a glimpse." — Anne Ryland in EHP Issue Fourteen
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July 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"The bothy has two windows, thick walls, a white / my mother would deem spotless, at a glimpse." — Anne Ryland in EHP Issue Fourteen
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"I remember breaking the dry pods with you, / seeds spilling into my palm / like small promises for spring." — Hanna Han in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Hanna Han — Empty House Press
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July 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"I remember breaking the dry pods with you, / seeds spilling into my palm / like small promises for spring." — Hanna Han in EHP Issue Fourteen
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"We start with berries at / their dacha, red fruit sweet, staining my shirt; / the kettle boiling on open fire, black rye bread, / my wooden toys." — Polina Kouzminova in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Polina Kouzminova — Empty House Press
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July 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"We start with berries at / their dacha, red fruit sweet, staining my shirt; / the kettle boiling on open fire, black rye bread, / my wooden toys." — Polina Kouzminova in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Delighted to see my short story Communion in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social with works that “trace how #time gathers quietly in stairwells & #gardens, pastures and cemeteries. . . measured not only in hours & years, but also by glances, absences, & the enduring weight of #memory.” shorturl.at/LExnq
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July 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Delighted to see my short story Communion in @emptyhousepress.bsky.social with works that “trace how #time gathers quietly in stairwells & #gardens, pastures and cemeteries. . . measured not only in hours & years, but also by glances, absences, & the enduring weight of #memory.” shorturl.at/LExnq
"The tall grass hides us, she and I. We lie on bath towels in our bikinis because we can’t go to the beach." — Rachel St. Ours in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Rachel St. Ours — Empty House Press
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July 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"The tall grass hides us, she and I. We lie on bath towels in our bikinis because we can’t go to the beach." — Rachel St. Ours in EHP Issue Fourteen
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"The soot chute emptied from the fireplace hatch, / from the room of living, down to a door, / thick, cast-iron [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Luca D'Anselmi — Empty House Press
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July 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"The soot chute emptied from the fireplace hatch, / from the room of living, down to a door, / thick, cast-iron [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi in EHP Issue Fourteen
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Dear Housemates: Submissions are currently closed as we take an extended hiatus. Thank you for your support, your stories, and your patience. We'll return when it's time to open the door again. Until then—thank you, truly 🏠✨
July 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dear Housemates: Submissions are currently closed as we take an extended hiatus. Thank you for your support, your stories, and your patience. We'll return when it's time to open the door again. Until then—thank you, truly 🏠✨
"When a snell wind birls in from the north / our kettle spits white sparks on the hob / and the hearth booms [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Pippa Little — Empty House Press
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July 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"When a snell wind birls in from the north / our kettle spits white sparks on the hob / and the hearth booms [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Happy to have my poem "Abandoned Railroad Trestle Bridge, Oregon" up at Empty House Press today.
"Less abandoned than re-imagined. / Splay of moss and green lichen, / leafy and curving, ornaments the posts / and sway braces." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Jennifer Saunders — Empty House Press
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June 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Happy to have my poem "Abandoned Railroad Trestle Bridge, Oregon" up at Empty House Press today.
"Sixty years tore like child’s play / cracking the sky. Black on its crown, / its roots held the ground." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Angie Macri — Empty House Press
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June 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Sixty years tore like child’s play / cracking the sky. Black on its crown, / its roots held the ground." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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"Less abandoned than re-imagined. / Splay of moss and green lichen, / leafy and curving, ornaments the posts / and sway braces." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Jennifer Saunders — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"Less abandoned than re-imagined. / Splay of moss and green lichen, / leafy and curving, ornaments the posts / and sway braces." — Jennifer Saunders (@magpiedays.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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"On wing-swept nights in the low meadow, I hear them, / corncrake spirits rasping, haunting pastures lost [...]" — Maggie Doyle, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Maggie Doyle — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"On wing-swept nights in the low meadow, I hear them, / corncrake spirits rasping, haunting pastures lost [...]" — Maggie Doyle, EHP Issue Fourteen
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"Once, as a young woman half asleep in a friend’s mountain yard tracing the stars, she’d been approached by a skunk in the dark, watched in stillness as it floated across the grass..." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Regina Rae Weiss — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Once, as a young woman half asleep in a friend’s mountain yard tracing the stars, she’d been approached by a skunk in the dark, watched in stillness as it floated across the grass..." — Regina Rae Weiss (@reginagroks.bsky.social), EHP Issue Fourteen
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"She trusts skirts, shorts, jumpers, pyjamas to a thrawn sun: / her laundering-love, no, her love-laundering, / the ceremony of releasing them to billow and run and fly." — Anne Ryland, EHP Issue Fourteen,
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Issue Fourteen - Anne Ryland — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"She trusts skirts, shorts, jumpers, pyjamas to a thrawn sun: / her laundering-love, no, her love-laundering, / the ceremony of releasing them to billow and run and fly." — Anne Ryland, EHP Issue Fourteen,
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"In the kitchen once, / you taught me to knead dough, / pressing it firm yet gentle. / 'Patience, you said, / 'Patience is the secret.'" — Hanna Han, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Hanna Han — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"In the kitchen once, / you taught me to knead dough, / pressing it firm yet gentle. / 'Patience, you said, / 'Patience is the secret.'" — Hanna Han, EHP Issue Fourteen
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"Potato fields stretch for miles, indented with footprints; / fire crackles in the distance, little homes dispersed / over the valley." — Polina Kouzminova, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Polina Kouzminova — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Potato fields stretch for miles, indented with footprints; / fire crackles in the distance, little homes dispersed / over the valley." — Polina Kouzminova, EHP Issue Fourteen
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"Later still, when I hear her latch open and the sound of her legs shifting over the ledge, I feel betrayed. 'Where are you going?' I ask. 'Out,' says her cat voice." — Rachel St. Ours, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Rachel St. Ours — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Later still, when I hear her latch open and the sound of her legs shifting over the ledge, I feel betrayed. 'Where are you going?' I ask. 'Out,' says her cat voice." — Rachel St. Ours, EHP Issue Fourteen
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"We knew better / than to harrow farther back into the cold / where the soot grew slimy, icier and wetter, / not thinking how it would be to grow old / in that deep [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Luca D'Anselmi — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"We knew better / than to harrow farther back into the cold / where the soot grew slimy, icier and wetter, / not thinking how it would be to grow old / in that deep [...]" — Luca D'Anselmi, EHP Issue Fourteen
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"this house rocks like a ship, / creaks and calls, and the corbies caw, lost souls / crying down the chimney [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Pippa Little — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"this house rocks like a ship, / creaks and calls, and the corbies caw, lost souls / crying down the chimney [...]" — Pippa Little, EHP Issue Fourteen
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"To get a reckoning of time, / I counted the rings of the oak / after it was cut in sections / like a spine." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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Issue Fourteen - Angie Macri — Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"To get a reckoning of time, / I counted the rings of the oak / after it was cut in sections / like a spine." — Angie Macri, EHP Issue Fourteen
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✨ISSUE FOURTEEN IS HERE!✨
FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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Empty House Press
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June 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
✨ISSUE FOURTEEN IS HERE!✨
FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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FICTION by Rachel St. Ours & @reginagroks.bsky.social
POETRY by Luca D'Anselmi, Maggie Doyle, Hanna Han, Polina Kouzminova, Pippa Little, Angie Macri, Anne Ryland, & @magpiedays.bsky.social
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