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Excerpts

Highlighting lit mags and presses based in Florida, and new books set in Florida, by publishing excerpts from their pages.

An Excerpt from The Way of Florida

Russell PerssonOctober 17, 2017

The sharp oyster beds cut into the feet and to move in the water is a slowness. There is a quiet around you there. The sun is almost welcome. Is almost a wanted sun up above the window of the sea you wade through the bending sights below all bended and rippled you pass a hand through that waterpane and see your arm take an angle to the oyster there...

ExcerptsFlorida Fiction10 min read

Vow

Pat RushinSeptember 26, 2017

An excerpt from Pat Rushin's new story collection, Quantum Physics & My Dog Bob.

Excerpts13 min read

Orlando Jones Lends An Ear

Madison Strake BernathAugust 15, 2017

I’ll have you know I was almost chum once. And that’s not something you should go around calling people in the Keys...

ExcerptsFlorida Fiction41 min read

Nibbling at the Bloodstains

Linda H. HeuringJune 20, 2017

To the arborist it's a rope; to the mariner it's a line, but they serve the same purpose. They tie up things you want to stay put, and they keep your loved ones safe. That was the plan, anyway.

ExcerptsFlorida Fiction11 min read

An Interview with Brett J. Barr

Jaclyn KobylarskiMay 23, 2017

When it comes to my pencil work, I like to mix realism and beauty with darker, disturbing images...

Florida FictionGhost ParachuteInterview3 min read

2 poems

Ashley InguantaApril 28, 2017

The moon painted a picture of me and she called it “hay.” The picture is my hair, sliced off from the ears down, tied with rope and slapped onto a clean, metal table.

Poetryseul1 min read