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Nikki Ummel

Nikki Ummel: A Wake for One

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I avoid dressing my own dead. I made it eight years as a mortician before I broke my one, unspoken rule. Thanks, mother. The medical examiner’s report said she died from “blunt force trauma to the head” when her body collided with the packed rock and dirt trail. At fifty, she was surprisingly spry, so […]

Filed Under: fiction 102, Issue 102 Tagged With: Nikki Ummel

Nikki Ummel

March 18, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

Nikki Ummel is a queer writer, editor, and educator at the University of New Orleans. Nikki has been published or is forthcoming in The Adroit, Hobart, PANK, The Georgia Review, and more. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry and twice awarded an Academy of American Poets Award. She is currently the […]

Filed Under: Contributors 101, Contributors 102, Issue 101, Issue 102 Tagged With: Nikki Ummel

Nikki Ummel: All the Trees of the Field Clapped Their Hands

March 8, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

The first time I had sex was in a barn. He laid me down like a blanket,  smoothed me over.  My edges were tucked. Windows wide, I saw I  saw the trees sway, heard the horses moan. The April  fields of lavender looked lovely,  buds ripe, seed ready to spread.   When he buttoned his […]

Filed Under: Issue 101, Poetry, Poetry 101 Tagged With: Nikki Ummel

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