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Issue 3 – Spring 2020

Table of Contents

Three Idioms Reimagined as Short Fiction
Wild Things Flee
Lindy and the High Water Mark
July First and Last
Beach Drive
The media could play my mother
Donna alla finestra
Keeping You Good, Little Sister
Before Light
Friendship
It’s Not Going to Get Better
Within the Woods
The Lake
She Turns
Firing Squad
Phyllum Down
A Real American Hero
A Mule of One’s Own
Simple
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Just Released: Reader Centered Writing

Orca senior editor Joe Ponepinto has been writing and editing creative work for most of his adult life. His new book, Reader Centered Writing, is a collection of the best of these essays on basic writing conventions, advanced techniques, and musings on the writing life in a section called Adventures in the Slushpile. There are also several new essays included. Order a print or Kindle version on Amazon, or a PDF on our 55 Fathoms website.

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