M. Anne Avera

Poet’s Statement Growing up in North Carolina, gothic overtones are prevalent in my writing – dark themes’ credibility and significance

“Fish cannot feel pain.”  that’s what you told me {at least}  at the back of a cab  with your

In the dark, thirty pairs of tiny red eyes were staring at her. Prof X had reminded them to turn

Tsunami Apocalypse  The Extrovert Goes Gently  Daddy said he could see in his dreams. Waking brought back the darkness. So

“Final Girl” by Lorrie Ness Like a corpse’s receding skin, the pram’s canopy shrivels from its overturned frame.

I take two melatonin before I lay down. My sheets are always nice and cold and I hope to fall

Pipes, steel, and blinding snow without. The hulking furnace breathes onward, Gasping fiercely into a blinding white. Winds from south,

The way I count it, the night my brother had that run in with the dog was around when the

They tell you when you’re quitting anything that it’s normal for the dreams to come. You pick your

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