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“The Rocket Farmer” — Interzone 271 (July/August 2017)

July 6, 2017 Julie Day Leave a comment

My story “The Rocket Farmer” was published in the July/August 2017 issue of Interzone.

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Sarnai

I sit at my kitchen table and watch as my soon-to-be ex-husband, David, assembles cardboard boxes and labels each one in neat block letters. This is David’s third packing weekend and once again our daughter has made herself scarce; Sophie has no problem with late-at-night drunk mom or lonely stoned dad, but watching us sort through the flotsam of our former marriage—it’s too much.

“What’s up with those burn marks on the driveway?” David says. “I can setup the fire pit if … Read more

“Raven Hair” — Cream City Review (April 2017)

April 9, 2017 Julie Day Leave a comment

My story “Raven Hair” was published in the Spring 2017 issue of the Cream City Review.

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Spring

You were the wolf, the witch, the unnamed monster in the woods. Instead of blood offerings, the townspeople left you woven baskets full of waxy red fruit. I left myself: red cape and fiery virgin blood.

I was the one who lifted my hand and knocked. I had black hair, dark as a raven, and the dress my mother had sewn for me. You saw me just the same: my already curving hips, my waiting breasts.

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“Idle Hands” — New Haven Review (February 2017)

March 9, 2017 Julie Day Leave a comment

My novelette “Idle Hands” was published in the February 2017 issue of the New Haven Review.

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Sylvia: 1971

God or no God, Sylvia Vieira’s special day was all wrong. No mother helped Sylvia fasten her dress for her First Communion. No little sister burst into her bedroom, upending her collection of pressed flowers and carefully preserved damselfly wings, then looking falsely outraged when Sylvia complained.

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Buy a copy of the New Haven Review, the essay, fiction, poetry, art, and book review journal where “Idle Hands” first appeared (Issue 019): http://www.newhavenreview.com/subscribeordonate/

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