Issue 2
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By Mark Keane Samuel leafed through the user manual while Carol set up the laptop for him. A retirement gift, after forty years in the civil service. Not an end but the beginning of a new chapter, or so he’d been told at his retirement party. He was to use the laptop to explore the
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By Molly McDonough I Warm salted water tumbles me like laundry to land. I swim back out unafraid. Wave after wave buoys my eleven-year-old body. It’s my favorite week of every summer—visiting my great aunt at Myrtle Beach. On the shore, my mom waves with her whole arms, cups hands to mouth and screams something.
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By Hayley Shucker Leo 𖤓 | Taurus ⏾ | Virgo ↑ You’re overjoyed because a secret room is all you’ve ever wanted in a house. It echoes the children’s stories that fed you twice a week at story hour. The ones full of magic and lions. Very unlike real life, the life of babysitting for
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Dear Reader, In this, the last month of the year, we present an issue of beginnings. Each month the moon starts its cycle over, returning to darkness to grow again in the light. We at A Curious Moon look forward to this monthly transformation as a reminder that we can always start again. Our second
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Blanket of Night By Janina Aza Karpinska Medium: Sewn Panel – cloth; buttons; toggle; sequins; magic Janina Aza Karpinska is a multi-disciplinary artist from the south coast of England, whose creative practice includes stitching visual narratives, poems, and commemorative work. Her sewn panels have featured in: Drawn to the Light; Midnight Fawn Review; One More
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