Today’s guest blog post comes from Jean Herreman, whose short story “Dementia” appears in Issue 11 of The Quotable. This morning I discovered a great character in an unlikely place—the Saturday “Wheels” section of The Island Packet, the local newspaper here on Hilton Head...

Today’s guest blog post comes from Quotable contributor Matthew Andrew. “Musa Qala,” my story that was selected for volume 10 of The Quotable, was conceived from an extra homework assignment given in a class dealing with the fundamentals of short fiction. The topic we were studying at...

Today’s guest blog post comes from Jed Myers, whose poem “I’ve Left You” appears in Issue 10 of The Quotable. When 9/11 happened, twelve years ago now, I was one among the many who found ourselves somehow broken open. It was not unlike other sudden losses or...

Today’s blog post is by Penny Harter, author of the poem “The Resonance Around Us” in Issue 10 of The Quotable, out today. Find more of Penny Hart’s work on her blog and website: www.2hweb.net/penhart  penhart.wordpress.com   I wrote “The Resonance...

Today’s guest post is by Michael Chaney, who’s short story, “Trolling for Easter Porn” will appear in The Quotable Issue 10: Space. You can find more of Michael’s writing at www.michaelalexanderchaney.com   Know Thyself. No thanks, Socrates. You can go on...

Read This, Too! is The Quotable reaching out, linking up, and stuffing our faces full of the writers that are published daily in the vast sea of literary journals. It’s hard to keep up, but we want to. We want to read more and feel closer to all the delicious goodness we aren’t...

Today’s guest post is by Jeroen van Honk. His short story, “I Dance People” appears in Issue 10 of The Quotable. It is confession time. Every time I put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, I start to feel slightly phony. The reason is I’m writing in English. I am not...

Congratulations to Karen Donley-Hayes, our July Writing Prompt Contest Winner! “That’s where it happened,” they said. They spoke in unison, like twins. “In the bathtub?” their companion said. I stopped chewing my granola to eavesdrop better. “In the bathtub,” one of the...

  Congratulations to Melissa Grunow, our June Writing Prompt Contest Winner! It was a drought. The first in ten summers that it refused to rain. Sunshine and heat during the day and strong winds threatening tornadoes at night, but no rain. Lawns burned to dry brush under the open sky and...