Talking Writing Magazine

Ink Love

Essay by Mandy Shunnarah

Tattoos are the promises we make to ourselves.

Frasier 2099

Poem by Shaw Patton

It’s been so long that laugh tracks seem fresh again.

Isolation Hospital

Flash Essay by Kenneth Michael Stewart

It’s not the spasms or pain I remember, only the damp, hot, itchy, smelly strips of wool.

Western PA Air and Water Ballet

Poems by Terry Dawson

The Kumbh Mela never comes to Pittsburgh: no one mistakes the Allegheny for the Ganges.

Let It Rain

Essay by Derick B. Donahoe

We didn’t realize the degree to which irrigation saturated our lives until our first trip to the Oregon coast.

Today in 7th Period

Poem by Steve Henn

What had started as an attempt at witty improv had grown strange, weird and oddly gregarious.

Blocked: A Day-Old Memoir

Essay by Gina Hanson

I like first-person headshots possibly more than I like writing.

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