Category: creative writing
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Two Degrees from Hell on the Old 49 Highway by S. Vargo
Samuel Vargo writes for progressive, liberal, online magazines that headline daily and have national readerships. He also writes for a few comedy and satire mags that headline daily and have national and/or international readerships. Mr. Vargo has written poetry and short stories for print and online literary magazines, university journals and a few commercial magazines.…
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La Vie Bohème en Bleu by Paix Robinson
PAIX ROBINSON is a professional artist, writer and model raised in Oakland, CA, currently residing in Harlem, NY. Paix attended the Ailey School and his studies also include a major in Theatre Arts & Dance at CSULA. Paix is signed with MMG Model Management. Paix’s blog “WeerdVomit” has a readership in over 20 countries and…
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Now Available: In Parentheses Magazine (Summer 2016)
Hello friends! Hope everyone is having a lovely summer. In this issue of IP (Vol. 4 Issue 2) we feature the work of many great artists: Michael Pitter, Sam Weinstein, Annie Terrazzo, M. Fagan Kuhnmuench, Adelia Amineva, Louisa Mardirossian, Samuel Vargo, Alexa Wejko, Luanne Castle, Robert Beveridge, Gary Beck, Jessica Gawrych, Holly Day, Suman Jampala, Carmen…
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Excerpt from “Eli” … by G. Mramor
Moonlight fades on the treeline and stars ride out on the waves blurry like candles on panes of rain. He asks so she puts him down and he cozies on her chest mumbling something about her boobs. Last lights strain out like threads into a million infinities and the moon is gone. Sunk in the night…
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Poems by Gary Beck
Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director, and as an art dealer when he couldn’t make a living in theater. He has 11 published chapbooks. His poetry collections include: Days of Destruction (Skive Press), Expectations (Rogue Scholars Press). Dawn in Cities, Assault on Nature, Songs of a Clerk, Civilized…
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Fall 2015 Anthology Issue of In Parentheses Literary Magazine
We’re back. In Parentheses Literary Magazine (Fall 2015) By In Parentheses in IP Volume 4 40 pages, published 10/20/2015 (Anthology issue) Volume 4, Issue 1 of In Parentheses Literary Magazine Thank you to all our submitters and loyal followers who have kept along in the past year.
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All of them…by G. Mramor
I am not the dream they made You hide because I am not the Father of your children nor the Ghost of a love they took from You and made something sick.
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Kohlapuri Chappal Incident by S. Edwards
Sarah Edwards is a struggling writer deeply involved in experimentation with the English language and literature. Her work is forthcoming in Electric Cereal and Reality Hands. Kohlapuri Chappal Incident This is about the time when my mother sent me to buy Kohlapuri chappals[1] for her but it is not about the time that made it…
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Feature: “Just Sign this Concerned” by S. Vargo
In the Feature Series, we hand-select material from past In Parentheses Literary Magazine publications and highlight them on our blog for a new audience. Submit work to In Parentheses here. Samuel Vargo has written poetry and short stories for print and online literary magazines, university journals and a few commercial magazines. Mr. Vargo worked most of his…
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Why Modern American Racism Will Exist for Another Few Hundred Years by M. Pitter
The murder of Michael Brown and the police intimidation and brutality that followed has pulled today’s mainstream discourse back into ascertaining how this country’s race problems could be resolved. Resolution of this historically American issue implies a sort of eradication of racism from American society. But how could this be achieved? Modern racism (as we…
