Spark is a quarterly anthology accepting Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, and Creative Non-Fiction. We encourage both established and emerging talent. What We Are Looking For.

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Wind awakened in courteous puffs. Nudging drowsy oak to breathing, but. Allowing lazy-child chime a sleep-in. Yawning sun flowed over dew-sheen. In soft sighs, sating my August heart. With the filling, fear of the hollow. Following; the stifling of hope. Of this bliss someday returning. Grass lay down his jeweled-cloak. To cast my steps in brief time,. But, my prints are fading fast behind;. One step passed bliss was taken.

2016 is still in the future.

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