Today’s guest post is by Ann Hillesland, whose short story “After Waking” appears in Issue #18 of The Quotable. I’m a bit of a packrat. For example, I have over fifty hats, most of them vintage, many of them unworn by me. I have enough bone china teacups (packed in a snowstorm of...

Today’s blog comes from The Quotable Issue:19 contributor, Embe Charpentier. It wasn’t such a long time ago that skeptics doubted a great story could be told in one hundred words. Nowadays, one look at Drabble and 101 Word Stories will refute that claim. How about the 140-character...

Dear readers and contributors, Five years ago we came together as four friends from a writing group with the idea of starting a literary journal. We had no way of knowing at the time if anyone would ever submit or if anyone other than our parents would ever read it. The response from our...

This is the last in a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 17 contributor, Stacy Clark.  I see them smiling in the grocery store, at the coffee shop. Strangers look at her, glance at me, and smile at us. She still holds my hand or slides her arm through mine when we walk. She is...

This is the second of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 17* contributor, Stacy Clark.  I have this habit. I walk into a coffee shop or spend time in an airport, and I come away with a story. Maybe it is the writer in me, the quiet observer. It could be I am small and look...

This is the first of a series of blog posts from The Quotable Issue 17* contributor, Stacy Clark.    It was our first meeting. I met him outside at a picnic table on a crisp Vermont morning. Squinting into the sunlight, we sat with coffee and reading lists and a study plan at our...

Today’s guest post is by Jodi Herlick, whose short story “By the River” will appear in Issue #17 of The Quotable. Confession: I take my kids to playgrounds without swings so I won’t have to push them. While other moms scramble through climbing tubes, giggling as they shoot...

Today’s guest post is by Ross Losapio, whose poem “Kinky Hair” appears in Nature or Nurture, Issue 16 of The Quotable.   We’ve lost a number of incredible poets in recent years, including, just this past Valentine’s Day, Philip Levine. Levine—along with...

Today’s post is from The Quotable contributor, Christina Scott. You can read Christina’s short story, “Closer to God” in the upcoming Issue 17, Nature or Nurture.    The skinny blond girl in her late twenties is tutoring an older black woman in her mid- to...