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Call for Submissions
post a comment | posted May 1
LiteraryMary, journal of the beautiful, unusual and eclectic, will be publishing our first ever print issue in January of 2009, in celebration of the second anniversary of our steadily growing website of the same name.
Not-So-Recent Blog Posts
Announcing the Second Annual Nooberama Poetry Contest
post a comment | posted May 1
Registered members of LM, those with the slightest trace, the tiniest iota of gumption, cojones, spunk, and hopefully, ability...
Mirror, Mirror by MSW
post a comment | posted Nov 5
Mirror, Mirror,
Staring through perpetuity
Fingers brushing replication
Self-symmetry, angles, curves
Metamorphosis in the eyes of a stranger.
On the wall...
silvered glass
Echoes truth,
Tainting the perfection
She hides behind.
Who i...
Mystery House by G.K. Fralin
post a comment | posted Oct 31
Driving along a country road in northern Kansas,
we spy an oddly placed architectural mystery.
It sits alone in a barbed wire enclosed field of prairie grasses.
The hipped roof appears as a signature on a painting
of the architect's design....
Announcing LM's First Ever Members Only Writing and Poetry Competitions!
post a comment | posted Sep 24
Yes, you heard that right, folks. Two competitions, and each managed by Literary Mary's highly respected and completely unbribable (darn it) Specialists.
Tell you more? Why, it would be my pleasure. And I'll do it with the anouncements right fr...
Not Right for Asimov's by Chris Miller
post a comment | posted Sep 15
A while back I relaxed my no snail-mail subbing rule and sent something to Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Because I had to print the piece out double-spaced plus include return postage and mailer, the exercise wound up costing me about ten dol...
Living Room Writing by Hawke
post a comment | posted Sep 10
I spotted a picture in a liquidation store that I knew would be perfect for my living room. It wasn't just any old picture of course. This was a huge and very expensive-looking picture. A double-matted and double framed picture. One of those pictur...
Broken Glass by MSW
1 comment | posted Sep 3
Daddy doesn't live here anymore. The smell of his aftershave and the clunk of his boots doesn't linger in the hallway anymore, and somehow, I don't miss it. The television isn't blaring the weather now, and the quiet assaults my ear drums with a cr...