Submissions are CLOSED…for now.

Submissions are now CLOSED for the time being. While we don’t want to use the word “hiatus”, the fact is that all three editors are busy either polishing or finishing their respective novels. Meaning we’re hellishly busy.

On the good news side – there may be something wonderful in store for Rotten Leaves.

It sounds like “sprint”, especially if you remove the first letter.

But more on that either in August or September. In the meantime, ya’ll have a fantastic summer, filled with sun and drinks and good fiction.

The Clown, by Edward J. Rathke

jimmy was a friend of mine

every night from the rodeo

wearing clown paint

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Venus Di Milo, by Jessica L. J. Smith

Upon matriculating, her parting gift was a pair of combat boots.

Artemis was jealous, Athena loathed her.

Off to war she flew on a comet of enthusiasm.

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Don’t Try This At Home, by Ian Hunter

Heard in the limbo of the waiting room

at Accident and Emergency

from the excited tones of two boys

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Attention Deficit, by Matthew Dexter

I witnessed the most gifted and brilliant children from the richest families in America reduced to penniless addicted degenerates,
sniffing white miles, pink piles of crushed up Ritalin through hollowed out Bic pens, into congested crimson nostrils,
up bloody noses, hemorrhaging copiously like demented rats in
the most hopelessly twisted of sadistic experiments, … Continue Reading

Poetry

Prose and verse poetry.

“Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

One evening I took Beauty in my arms – and I thought her bitter – and I insulted her.”

Arhur Rimbaud