Sudden Fiction by Sam Barbee
Summer rain rattles the downspouts. I listen to Puccini, perfect music for Sunday morning. From the window I watch grass swell, so eager to turn green. My daughter, fresh from napping, joins…
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Sam Barbee
Writing by Sam Barbee published in Dual Coast Magazine. 5 pieces from the archive, free to read.
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Solar Eclipse by Sam Barbee
This is not an Easter morning, yet the flaxen moon guarding my tomb of guilt has rolled back, and hovers above the swale. Noontime shadows constrict to picket fences. Snowbirds consider distant…
Hybrid by Sam Barbee
After blight, our chestnut forests rotted. Their shadows now emerge, suffering in furniture and mirror frames, within unconsecrated slights of legend. A ring of scientists now cross-breed remaining Chestnuts with a Chinese…
A Validation Forbidding Mourning by Sam Barbee
Intoning the grim morning, thunder rumbles in the distance. I cozy to you this deceitful dawn, filling our interim while lightening slings its illumination across these naked bodies as we embrace. I…
Trick Photography by Sam Barbee
Saturday night, we gathered before the black and white television to watch a movie: sometimes a western saga, others a biblical classic. Clad in plaid robe and puppy slippers, clutching a favorite…