Sunday, December 1, 2024
The West Coast of Florida's Arts & Culture Magazine

Literature

FEATURE ARTICLES

Two Storms by Katherine Robinson

The stench of grief, loss and shock are everywhere permeating the area with smells of red tide and salt waterthat had crept into places that...

 Separating the Worry Above from the Worry Below

I live my signifying, unrhymed, in St. Petersburg, but I am writing this scrambled treatise in Tallahassee, the tall hassle of paradise, the state...

Poetry from Carlo DiOrio

Ambition My ambition is to work the words “Christ on a bike!” into a poem. But no doubt I will end up accomplishing nothing much more than managing to...

Gianna Russo – Poetry

I've set my heart on a glimpse of you: Florida Golden Aster (Chrysopsis floridana) --- listed as endangered in 1986 You are so rare I can't find...

The Painting

Like an icon for some minor but ardently worshiped deity, the painting stands behind a giant molcajete of guacamole, its colors splashier even than patrons usually expect from a Mexican restaurant, the painting, that is; the guacamole is just green. "That's got to have a dozen avocados," she says aloud, and although no one can hear her,...

THE APPRENTICE 

BOOK EXCERPT FOR THE ARTISAN MAGAZINE - From: Cigar City: Tales From a 1980s Creative Ghetto Fiction Gold Medal, Florida Book Awards Looking down at the...

An Impressionistic Ode to Tombolo Books

Geographically, a tombolo is the sand bar and gravel that connects an island to the mainland or connects two islands. If it were punctuation,...

“Florida Hustle” By Paul Wilborn

Paul Wilborn's new novel, Florida Hustle, is set in the world of cheap 1980s slasher films.  In the opening chapter, aspiring horror filmmaker Michael Donnelly,...
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