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Fiction 83

Congratulations Kim Church!

January 29, 2014 by PBQ

In 2010, Kim Church‘s short story, Victuals, appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly 83rd Issue. Since then, Church has progressed her writing career and is excited to announce the launch of her debut novel, Byrd, published by Dzanc Books. Written as letters to the protagonist’s son, we see a fragmented family history of a child given up for adoption […]

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Mariko Nagai: Fugue

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

(When I was a child, I was always hungry. We grew up not knowing that some people were never hungry. When I was a child, my parents taught me that our bodies are not ours, but our masters’, that we are put on earth to bend as near to the ground as we can, bound […]

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Kim Church: Victuals

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

Picture a man walking into a grocery store — Harris-Teeter, say.  An old man in a corduroy coat, tufts of acrylic pile spilling out the sleeves.  He stops between the automatic doors, feels around in his pockets, checks his wallet. No list. He glances around, frowning, as if debating whether to soldier on without it […]

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Amanda Bales: Rotate and Return

May 10, 2011 by PBQ

Beth watched the tip of the rod quiver, the motion sharp against the gentle sway of pine trees and white shells of aspen jutting from the boulders and cliffs surrounding them.  She looked at her shaking hands and took a steadying breath, stepped ankle deep into the river. Her casts were neat, but they were […]

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