Madcap 2019 Pushcart Nominations
Hi all, we're thrilled to announce our 2019 nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Each piece is free to read at https://madcapreview.com/ along with every issue we've published. Thank you to all of our wonderful contributors, and special thanks to our readers for all of the support.
Avocado Slices
"Our eyes met. I looked at the door, at the beer, at him again. I grabbed the six-pack and ran. The cashier jumped the counter. The boy dropped his eggs. When I ran through the exit, I hit my shoulder on the door and knocked over a Mother Mary statue. I didn’t know where I was running. I just ran."
From "Avocado Slices" by Suhasini Yeeda. Issue 9, Madcap Review.
https://madcapreview.com/issue-9/suhasini-yeeda-avocado-slices/
#fiction #shortstory #writing #literature #litmag #MadcapReview #Mexico #Travel #Family #Avocado
Danaë, Cast out to Sea with Perseus
"Each hour the hunger returns in thunders,
clapped into the ground of me, tarried and light-
heavy. The ocean outside the steam barrel
climbs, then fallows. We falter with the waves.
As if we could have lace in us, they carry us closer
to the end of the earth: a god’s handkerchief
white and captive in the wind."
https://madcapreview.com/issue-7/sarah-crossland-danae/
#poetry #poem #writing #danae #perseus #mythology