Gnashing Teeth Publishing

| words that get in your teeth

a bounty of beans

there is something comforting about a bowl of warm beans. it could be charros with a tortilla, pintos with cornbread, navy beans with crusty bread, split pea soup with crackers. whatever your preference there is always a little something on the side to keep you from losing yourself completely in those tasty beans.

but sometimes it’s that little extra which completes the beans. the upcoming anthology definitely has a little something extra, and we feel it completes the word feast we are preparing.

the cover art is almost finalized. we can’t wait to show you. final edits are being made. pages are being arranged and rearranged. our bowl is almost full and ready to devour.

Goodnight, Taj Mahal by Andre Peltier

Deep below earth, clay and sand, deep below roots and aquifers, it lies in wait. Like that silent coyote stalking her white-tailed deer through the brush, it waits patiently and

contain by Megan Cartwright

verb past tense: contained; past participle: contained 1. have or hold (someone or something) within. Similar: hold carry To have and to hold in our own microcosm, constructed of hope.

Listening to Words by Mona Mehas

Listening to words out of touch cross lily pads, one to the next my rules, a tiny picture frame debt of honor, repay the gift. Headlights illuminate the path listening

Blooming by Elizabeth Gade

Some days are easy and some days are exhausting the days you have to dig through the muck inside take more hits than a heavyweight prize fighter cling to life

Pomegranate Rose by Laura Peña

I want to feed this delicacy To my concubine A tiny spoonful at a time I want to watch the luscious sorbet Linger on the tip of her tongue Melt

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