Is it a quiz or a poem? Read the latest by Lori Barret
This fun quiz-in-poem-form kicks off with a question all writers and bakers can relate to, “Can you guess which of the statements below are from judges sampling baked goods and which are from editors sampling my writing?”
Check out CLW’s Lori Barrett’s new story, “Quiz: Is It a Critique from The Great British Baking Show or a Response from a Literary Magazine?,” in Brevity. This fun quiz-in-poem-form kicks off with a question all writers and bakers can relate to, “Can you guess which of the statements below are from judges sampling baked goods and which are from editors sampling my writing?”
“It’s sort of squidgy at the sides.”
“Did You Eat a Lot Of Paint Chips as a Child?”: A new story from Lori Barrett
Check out CLW’s Lori Barrett new story, “Did You Eat a Lot of Paint Chips as a Child,” in Bull magazine. This is a funny and heartbreaking tale of a mid-life man’s adventure working retail.
Check out CLW’s Lori Barrett new story, “Did You Eat a Lot of Paint Chips as a Child,” in Bull magazine. This is a funny and heartbreaking tale of a mid-life man’s adventure working retail.
“He glanced around. Tea wouldn’t appeal to a kid. Nor would candles. He thought about the fruity lip balm. His daughter had opened them one by one to smell them the day she came in. He walked the woman back toward the front, to the lip balms in a fishbowl next to another fishbowl with the coconut-bead keyrings. In between them a pink sign on an easel said $2.50 EACH.
The woman sniffed a kiwi scented one. Vaughn could smell the nondescript sweetness from where he stood.”
A new flash from Lori, “Baby Chowder”
“Baby Chowder” by Lori Barrett published September 9 in JMWW. Congratulations, Lori!
“Her lack of employment made her defensive. She’d stepped aside when May was born. Stepping back in took herculean leaning. The pram in the hallway is a somber enemy of art, a photography professor had proclaimed to a class full of students when Beth was in college. She researched it. The person quoted would have been more than a hundred years old, if he were still alive. Virginia Woolf hated him. But the words were born again when she purchased her first stroller.”
A View From Inside
Lori Barrett just published a new essay up over at Scoundrel Times.
Lori Barrett just published a new essay up over at Scoundrel Times.
Congrats, Lori!
“Blanche walked through the lobby, her hands in her pants pockets, and looked out the window. Her short hair, usually curled and slightly teased, hung straight and was tucked behind her ears.
“That snow is out there taunting us,” she said.
I couldn’t help agreeing; it felt like a bad joke. The world outside had careened to an unrecognizable place, and the world inside had tilted even further from the reality any of us knew.”