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Gloria Ogo is an American-based Nigerian writer with several published novels and poetry collections. Her work has appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Brittle Paper, Spillwords Press, Metastellar, Gypsophila Magazine, Harpy Hybrid Review, Allegro Poetry Magazine, among others. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and serves as a reader for Reckoning Magazine. She is the winner of the 2024 Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize and a finalist for the 2024 Jerri Dickseski Fiction Prize, the 2025 ODU Poetry Prize, and the 2025 Rhonda Gail Williford Poetry Prize, earning honorable mentions. She is also a finalist for Lucky Jefferson's 2025 Poetry Contest. Her work was longlisted for the 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize.

The Rightsizing Ruse by Mary Heeran White

The boxes were packed and stacked, taped firmly, with an indelible ink scrawl chronicling a lifetime of cherished possessions. Every taped bundle spoke of moments, memories – each a carefully curated piece in the vivid mosaic of our lives. In those hectic days, as the nesting instinct kicked in, our home expanded, one choreographed and colour-graded piece of content at a time. Packing each thought-out and integrated part of our shared story, I found myself overwhelmed with gratitude for this space – a love so profound for the life we built together. ...

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My Perspective

Interview Q&A With Gloria Ogo

Low-End Notes

Interviews

Interview Q&A With Gloria Ogo

Spotlight On Writers – Tony Ashenden

Spotlight On Writers – Emee Ring

Those Who Mourn

The Colour of Loss

Mary Had a Stalker

Finding Christmas Along Interstate 75

Synaptic Seminar

Passion

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Mary Had a Stalker

Giulietta

Low-End Notes

Those Who Mourn

Hail to The Bus Driver

The Prison of the Wooden Frame

My Perspective

The Heart

Orville Baumgardner and Young Goodman Brown

Windwitch

Flowers in a Hurry

Those Who Mourn