The Literary Magazine of Mountainview MFA
Bright pink spots, a golden streak, the tiniest wild trout pops
through the net and slips away into the stream. It vanishes
before I can touch its pink specks; I’m compelled to cast again.
Meredith Chester holds a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. Her flash fiction and poetry has been published in the Wilderness House Literary Review and in La Piccioletta Barca. In her free time, she enjoys crafting and relaxing with her dog.
When my friend says of my trees, they are HUNDREDS of years old, we
are giddy, laugh too loudly, forget the time, lose the sunlight,
the owl flies to its ANCIENT branch in rapid merry dark.
Meredith Chester holds a BA in creative writing from Florida State University. Her flash fiction and poetry has been published in the Wilderness House Literary Review and in La Piccioletta Barca. In her free time, she enjoys crafting and relaxing with her dog.
“Renewal” contributor
Elaine Verdill is a poet and photographer who also paints with acrylics. Her artwork can be found in publications: The Poets’ Touchstone; Watershed Review; The Bookends Review; Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature for Women; Foliate Oak Literary Magazine; San Antonio Review; Barzakh; Beyond Words; The Sonder Review, and others.