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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.

Thoughts and Prayers

Haley Karin
These days we still don’t stop for death. Instead, we pass by and outside the window lining the suburban boulevard one tree gleams in the morning sun—the trunk wound tight in tinsel...
ExcerptsPoetry

An Excerpt from The Talented Ribkins

Ladee Hubbard
He only came back because Melvin said he would kill him if he didn’t pay off his debt by the end of the week. It was why he left St. Augustine, why he had no choice but to drive down to Lehigh Acres and dig up the box of money he’d buried in his brother’s yard fourteen years before.
ExcerptsFlorida Fiction

An Excerpt from The Way of Florida

Russell Persson
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 Fiction

Vow

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