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Self Image, commentary by KL Merchant at Spillwords.com

Brad Osborne, a highly decorated Marine combat veteran and poet living in Pennsylvania, is a contributing editor and member of The American Poets Society. His poetry has been published in “The Gettysburg Historical Review”, “NY Naval Quarterly”, “Tempest Poetic Society Journal”, and the anthology “Expressions” by The American Poets Society. His works have been featured online by Spillwords Press NYC, The Navy Times, Reader’s Digest, Healthy Living, Meditations, and many others. He was awarded the Anna Rabinowitz Prize by the Poet Society of America for 2015, the Silver Medal for Poetry by the Pennsylvania Poetry Review for 2009 and was a finalist for the Buckner Award in Poetry for 2017. He is currently editing his first book of poetry “Reticent Ink”, which he hopes to publish soon.

Spotlight On Writers – Suzanne Craig-Whytock

What turns you on creatively?

Because I write in several different genres (YA novels, thrillers, dark and twisty short stories, humorous essays), I find inspiration in a lot of places depending on what I’m working on in the moment. I like to take an idea and think “what if?” That “what if” usually ends up being something spooky and dark if it’s a novel or a short story, or something randomly absurd if it’s my blog.
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Features

Two Funerals and A Curse

Cicatrices y Huellas

Her Name Was Aprile

Interviews

Spotlight On Writers – Michael J Leach

Interview Q&A With Brad Osborne

Spotlight On Writers – Anoucheka Gangabissoon

Soft Opening

Two Funerals and A Curse

As Am I

Self Image

The Real Cost

self esteem

Generational Fragility

Spotlight On Writers – Michael J Leach

Her Name Was Aprile

I Dream of Many Heroes

Cicatrices y Huellas

Get ‘Em Where They Live

Milk Cup

The Madonna and Child

The Corona World

Two Funerals and A Curse

Soft Opening