sanctuary by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala
Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 German Dario resides in Tempe, Arizona with his wife, two sons, three dogs, a guinea pig, many plants,...
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I Could Kill You If I Wanted To by Kelle Groom
🏆 Nominated for Best Short Fictions I knew him in the way you know someone from a bar where you’re a regular. But he’s not a regular;...
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Lady by Anthony Okpunor
A sequel to Craziness Before the moon swells, and a god untangles a knot at my thighs, and my room smells blue in summer & mistletoe, my...
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Gnome Solution by Jasmine Sawers
Raccoon problems are chucklesome. When garbage strewn across the driveway and the lawn reveal your raccoon problem, of course, you’re...
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Symploké by Frank Passani
What was that? What was it? I recall reading it on the bluish leather couch while she was breakfasting at the kitchen table under that...
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Cross on the Highway by Anthony D’Aries
🏆 Pushcart Nominated I’m still not sure it’s legal. A young cop stopped us once, asked what we were doing, and when I told him, he...
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Third Kidney by Kaitlyn Burd
I admit I’m freaked out about going under in two days to get big teeth from the back of my mouth pulled, and somehow this devolves into...
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Side Gate by John Brantingham
You’re standing by the side gate of your place, waiting for your son to come home on the first day that he’s walking home from school on...
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Back to School by Ian Woollen
Our Illinois college town was a complicated organism, the busy campus of Prairie State, way more than an educational institution. It...
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Resurrection Blues by Garrett Rowlan
The black dog died of blunt force trauma. It happened at dusk on the first hole, the shortest of the three-hole golf course that Mike...
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A Man Belongs to Women by Gladwell Pamba
It was common knowledge that Nairobi was one big bedroom. He came into her life when this fact no longer kept her awake at night. She...
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A Cool Breeze in August by Rick Stein
John Simmons sat quietly on that stinking hot August day, listening to the wheels grind over the seams in the railroad track. Like a...
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Backstory: sanctuary by K.D. Harryman
sanctuary by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala can be read in Issue Three. The poem “sanctuary” by German Dario Piedrahita Abdala was one of...
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Moon Landing by Erin Carlyle
🏆 Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 When daddy went to the moon, I sat quietly at home, moonless. I thought to myself: I’d eat it all,...
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Having a Baby at 43 by Debora Kuan
🏆 Nominated for Pushcart 2022 🏆 Nominated for Best of the Net 2023 Your body is the oldest house on the block now. Or so it feels. Its...
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Backstory: Art by Gabriela Knutson
by Gabriela Knutson It was a pleasure and a joy to select images from my collection and pair them together with the poetry, flash, and...
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Editor's Note - Fall 2021
Dear Reader, Every issue of Five South not only represents the mindsets of our writers but the world at large. So, what’s on everyone’s...
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Backstory: Cross on the Highway by Andy K. Smith
In August of 2012, a couple of close friends and I embarked on a cross-country tour from Los Angeles to San Antonio. The three of us were...
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A Vision of Sunken Beauty by Sam Wilcox
Sam Wilcox is an emerging poet and artist living and teaching in eastern Tennessee. They are interested in materiality and form. When...
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Brief Holiday by Gordon Taylor
🏆 Pushcart Nominated On the king-sized hotel bed, I know I don’t realize my privilege. I can turn off television news, suppress politics...
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