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The Wild Boy

The Wild Boy

Ekphrastic Flash Fiction by Alice Kaltman
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Alternating Current Press
For Brigit Pegeen Kelly

For Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Poem by Craig Finlay
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Alternating Current Press
Freshman Year: An Excerpt from Leland Cheuk’s ‘No Good Very Bad Asian’

Freshman Year: An Excerpt from Leland Cheuk’s ‘No Good Very Bad Asian’

Fiction by Leland Cheuk
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Coil Excerpts
DaguerreoTyped Ekphrastic Photos & Responses
DaguerreoTyped #24: October 2019 Photo Prompt Writing Challenge

DaguerreoTyped #24: October 2019 Photo Prompt Writing Challenge

Each month, Alternating Current Press presents an ekphrastic challenge for writers and lovers of history.
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Alternating Current Press
DaguerreoTyped #20: Ekphrastic Response by Hannah Huff

DaguerreoTyped #20: Ekphrastic Response by Hannah Huff

Hannah Huff responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with the poem ‘A Routine Groundbreaking.’
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Alternating Current Press
DaguerreoTyped #18: Ekphrastic Response by R. J. Keeler

DaguerreoTyped #18: Ekphrastic Response by R. J. Keeler

R. J. Keeler responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with the poem “Trade (Among the Equilibrists).”
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Alternating Current Press
DaguerreoTyped #16: Ekphrastic Response by Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita

DaguerreoTyped #16: Ekphrastic Response by Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita

Rommel Chrisden Rollan Samarita responds to our monthly historical photo prompt with “What Can a Woman Do.”
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Alternating Current Press
Personal Essays, Narratives, & Memoir
Smoke Trapped in Ivy: Cigar Ashes & Bad Therapy

Smoke Trapped in Ivy: Cigar Ashes & Bad Therapy

Harley Taff talks about the friendships that got her through therapy & the necessary agonies of starting over.
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Alternating Current Press
How to Survive the 20th Anniversary of a Mass Shooting

How to Survive the 20th Anniversary of a Mass Shooting

Krista Hanley, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine mass shooting, lists how she prepares for the trauma and scars 20 years later.
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Krista Hanley
Fika; or, The Enjoyment of Coffee

Fika; or, The Enjoyment of Coffee

Nicholas Powell writes an ode to coffee, quality time, and the gender-assigning of objects, and it all might just be a metaphor.
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Yourwolfsdengaming
Kawasaki Is Not a Motorcycle: A Father’s Struggle with His Son’s Rare Illness

Kawasaki Is Not a Motorcycle: A Father’s Struggle with His Son’s Rare Illness

Jake Camp relives the trauma and uncertainty of his son’s battle with the rare vascular disorder Kawasaki Disease.
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Jake Camp
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