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No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during your active subscription period. You may turn off auto-renewing subscriptions by going to your user’s Account Settings after purchase. Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories,fiction and poetry from the literary new blood. The cost of the renewal will match the initial subscription price. This subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period, your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. LATEST THE HAUNTING ISSUE IS HERE The latest issue of Popshot Quarterly is on sale now. Each issue centres on a theme and the selected poems and short stories are then illustrated by some of the world. The magazine is published bi-annually, releasing a new issue every April and October. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Popshot is a beautifully illustrated magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction and poetry from the literary new blood. Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood. The subscription will include the current issue if you do not already own it and subsequently published future issues. This piece by Amy Barnes appeared in The Mystery Issue of Popshot Quarterly.Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood.įuture issues are also available through the following auto-renewing subscription(s): I never ate watermelon or cantaloupe again. I named that watermelon Trudy and she played by Sander’s Pond with me as I read books and did math. “Can I have a slice, mama?” She smiled as shook her head and called for the nurse lady. I heard the watermelon crying as they cut off its vines from inside my belly. “Do you like watermelon?” I asked the men in white coats and women in white hats.īlood red juice dripped across my belly when they sliced it open-smile-style.
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I gripped my tight, full belly the whole way wailing along with the ambulance siren. I ate a lot of watermelon that year, sucking down each slice and spitting out the seeds into the grass.įour months later, I couldn’t wear my Jordache jeans or even my gym glass sweatpants. More than just a pretty marble cover, the Dutch-translated literary magazine includes interviews with novelists, and some really fantastic new writing. She grabbed me by the arm and drug me off the paper-covered doctor chair, throwing my jumble sale sweatshirt and stretchy pants and Wednesday underpants at me. We ate almost a whole watermelon after we went swimming.” “Who did this?” she hissed at me like my brother’s bearded lizard that lived in a cage by his bed. “Watermelons in early spring are for rich people, mama. My back hurt like when I helped bring in the corn crops. I wasn’t looking forward to carrying this watermelon that long though. Having watermelons in the off-season was something rich people did.
Set up in 2008, the journal has gone from. “Sit still,” she told me, as if I were a child and not carrying a sweet watermelon under my skin.ĭr. One of the most accessible of illustrated literary magazines, Popshot is dinky in size and spiky in content. I jumped back in the stirrups that weren’t made for horseback riding. He touched my belly and set off some kind of sparky tweed-induced friction. Smith had a voice and bedside manner that matched his name. She loaded pumpkins up in her wheelbarrow and me into her wood-panelled station wagon.ĭr. The Protest Issue is a collection of vivid writing about what leads people to take to the streets or to speak out in protest.
Just as mama’s garden spit out piles of pumpkins, my belly reached gourd stage. Popshot is a beautifully illustrated quarterly magazine showcasing imaginative short stories, flash fiction and poetry by the best new writers. I tried pushing it down and hiding it under sweatshirts when everyone else was stripped down to tank tops and shorts.
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I asked Bobby to try and suck it out of me and he tried but we both knew it was all over.īy the time I went back to school, my stomach was the size of a cantaloupe, stretched summer peach-y skin that hadn’t been burnt by the constant Alabama sun. I felt it land with a plop in my stomach. I remembered my mama’s warning when it was too late. Popshot is an illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction and poetry from the literary new blood.
We were both sweating by the time we got done swimming and snacking. Bobby Jenkins and I went skinny dipping in Sander’s Pond and afterward we sat half-naked by the water’s edge and ate slices of watermelon until our fingers were red and we were both wearing less than we arrived in. I avoided eating watermelon until that one really hot day at the summer carnival. If you eat a watermelon, a baby will grow in your belly. Amy Barnes’ flash fiction explores the surprising ramifications of a young girl eating watermelon.
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