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We believe in the hard to figure and labels be damned. Flash, micro-prose, short-shorts, prose poems; hybrid writing, 1,000 words or less. Boxed art, not easily boxed. Let others call it names; we publish the best short-form written-word.

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starbassoon@gmail.com for queries, bassoon sightings and runaway advice.

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Watched you dance to the happy waltz. Wept at the turn that was my part, played from a teardrop mandolin. A stand-in in a band when the f-hole player quit; ran off with the star bassoon.

from “Cantilever Bridge,” Rogan Kelly