there are no gatekeepers
the literary world is surely something
you slipped past the gate
as the wardens slept
at night, or worse
you bribed them with blood money
now smug, you look back,
you tell me there are no keepers
success is your own
entitled to an ivory tower.
(your agent can't absolve this)
I long for
pedestrian
honest writing
About the Creator
M.
Half-time writer, all time joker. M. Maponi specializes in speculative fiction, and speculates on the best way to get his shit together.
Author of "Reality and Contagion" and "Consultancy Blues"
Something Is Beginning, I Think Challenge Winners
This challenge wasn’t about clean starts. It was about that weird in-between where something is beginning, but no one really knows what yet. A lot of these stories leaned into hesitation, into pauses and false starts and that feeling that something is about to happen but hasn’t quite.
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