The inaugural issue of our literary journal publication contains an international collection of first class short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, photographs and images. Contains work by renowned authors such as Melanie Rae Thon and John Dufresne as well as exciting new writers and artists.
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EXCERPTS FROM UNBOUND PRESS JOURNAL
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“Isn’t it kinda dangerous screwing a married woman, then going to her house to buy a goat from her husband?” Tommy asked.
“Damned right it is, and I see that silly bastard every day at the Red Onion. Never let him outta my sight either. You never know what a jealous husband is capable of. Seen too many of ‘em at the tavern. But he always pays his tab, so I let him in.”
Tommy knew if anyone told Bull what he was about to do, Bull would kill him. If Rachel found out, she would leave. He couldn’t decide which would be worse.
(Goats and Dumplins – C D Mitchell)
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‘My first mistake as a teacher at Borrego was the hard eye I fired at Calvert Benally who sat in the back of the classroom tipped back on his chair. I had not even stated teaching yet. I was still a guest, just sitting in on classes to get a good look at things, but Calvert stirred something inside me, something aggressive, something possibly violent that I hadn’t felt in a long time. Maybe not ever.’
(Unsettled: A Teacher’s Year in Navajoland – Kurt Caswell)
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On this hot night in 1936 nothing
was constant but humidity. Freckled
girls floated around the ferris wheels
tied like helium balloons to the wrists
of future farmers. Blue smells of cotton candy,
bearing-grease, and rotted caramel apples draped
the midway in dim moonlight.
The black-toothed carnie cussed, spit,
and packed stuffed bears in boxes
while my dad waited for his dollar.
(Last Night at the Gibson County Fair – James McGarrah)
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