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Sharmon Michelle Gazaway

Sharmon's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Love Letters to Poe, microverses.net: Octavos, Tiny Spoon, The Society of Classical Poets, Backchannels, Third Wednesday, The Storyteller Magazine, and other journals. She lives in the deep south and writes shorts, flashes, poems, and novels in multiple genres but favors speculative work.

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It Came With Violets

I feel as insubstantial as these pressed violet petals that haunt like a pantoum. I tuck them back into the book of poetry I'd found while browsing a flea market--alone, of course. Sunlight streams through the tall window, twinned in the cheval mirror standing by the mantel.…