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  • The Wild Boy

    The Wild Boy

    Ekphrastic Flash Fiction by Alice Kaltman
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    Alternating Current Press
    Dec 8, 2020
    For Brigit Pegeen Kelly

    For Brigit Pegeen Kelly

    Poem by Craig Finlay
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    Alternating Current Press
    Dec 3, 2020
    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
    Nov 9, 2020
    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
    Oct 2, 2019
    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
    Aug 17, 2019
    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
    Jan 5, 2019
    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
    Sep 13, 2018
    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
    Nov 2, 2020
    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
    Apr 20, 2019
    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
    Apr 17, 2019
    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
    Apr 15, 2019
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