Anne Anthony
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Micro-Fiction
Might Get Lucky | 53-Word Story Contest Winner | Prime Magazine Issue 137, July 2018, online Santa | Writers Resist, Holiday Issue 2017, online Rhino Skin | A Quiet Courage, June 9, 2017, online High Tech | Fifty Word Stories, October 14, 2016, online Accident | Tiny Text, November 28, 2016, online Questions Alex Asked His Wife Before She Left | Intrinsick, June 2016, online The Playground | A3 Review, Issue 3, September 2015, 1st Place contest winner, print Flash Fiction Chained and Locked | Dime Show Review, Vol 3, Issue 1, April, 2019. online/print Bathroom Break | Brilliant Flash Fiction, 3rd place contest winner, online Much Better | Firewords Quarterly, Issue #6, print Short Fiction The Pill | Carolina Woman's Magazine, 5th place contest winner Tulip Tree | The Dead Mule School for Southern Literature, April 2018 | online Music As Her Refuge | The Dead Mule School for Southern Literature, July 2017 | online. Archangels | Easy Street, December 5, 2016, online I Bought Bernie's Sofa | The Mused Literary Review, Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 2016, online A Blue Moon | Literary Orphans, Issue #27, November 2016, online Creative Non-Fiction On Opening the Door | Readers' Notes, Ruminate, June 15, 2017 print Clearing Out Daddy's Basement | Tell Us A Story, Volume 4, Issue #1, July 14, 2016, online In The Company of Other Writers | North Carolina Literary Review, Number 25, 2016, print Poetry Life In & Out | Atlas Poetica A Journal of World Tanka | Winter 2018 The Dissection of My Mother's Miscarriage | Glass Mountain, Volume 20, Spring 2018, print Dry Creek | Inside the Bell Jar's Mental Health Anthology - We Run Through the Dark Together,March, 2018 She Wants | Blue Heron Review, Winter 2018 Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Award. Inside My Closet | Poetry South, 2016 Issue, print Today is Our Jet Stream | Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine, November 8, 2016, online High Horse | ArtAscent, September 2016, pages 16 - 17. Gold Writer, print Anthologies The Collection: Flash Fiction for Flash Memory, March 2018 Type a Little Faster | Where's My Tiara Anthology?, Winter 2017 print available on Amazon.com. Every Star Has A Story | Crack the Spine, 15th Anthology Issue, Spring 2017, print available on Amazon.com Contact
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"Last night was a blur of commotion. The waiting room looked much the way it did after the police dragged him out, pushing past the armed guard he’d hired. He refused to go quietly. Intake forms were scattered on the floor, soaked with the juice of smashed tomatoes flung inside by protesters, and most chairs were upended. He flipped one plastic chair over on to its feet. Doc Johnson was handcuffed by boys he helped bring into the world.
"Carl paces on the edge of his property line like a dog restricted by an invisible fence. The tip of his cigarette glows. I take a last look at the rising moon shimmering against the darkening sky. The moon babbles louder and sharper tonight like the raucous gathering of birds before a bad storm." "I never planned to stay after Daddy died, two days before my seventeenth birthday. Had high hopes to go to college. I still recall nodding when Mama said her boys needed an education more than a girl. They’d have families to support. It’s a notion I’ve twirled like cotton candy in my head these many years while you boys scattered away.” "Sixty is a prickly age for women. We lose our children to work or to spouses; some lose their husbands to younger women or heart attacks. Since I had neither, I felt spared." |
