![]() Since we were married and had moved into the country, the only place we could afford, but also isolated from friends and family, it wasn’t just the walls that were feeling his fists. John was angry, even violent, before our marriage, but the violence never bled over to me. ![]() Lilly’s eyes, the whites visible, pleaded with me, but I knew it would be worse for us both if I intervened. “She took a shit in the garage,” he growled. Lilly was just a few months old when the front door of our country rambler burst open, and John dragged her in by the scruff of her neck. I knelt on the cold concrete patio and called: “Come here, puppies!” Lilly bounded over and climbed onto my lap, a soft, warm, wiggling lump with damp paws and a soft black nose she nuzzled into my palm. ![]() Lilly had a white star on her chest, visible even in the darkened garden. In the backyard, we were surrounded by red-gold fuzzy blurs. After responding to an ad for Golden Retriever puppies in the Seattle Times, we pulled up to the seller’s house on a dark-too-early November evening. Lilly entered our lives when John and I were still newlyweds. Ever since I filed for divorce, he asked me constantly: “What do I get for eight years of marriage?” Any trace of fear would betray me and there was too much at stake for this deal to fail. Your donation to the Forge Literary Magazine is tax deductible to the full extent of the law.“I want sole custody of Lilly,” I said, fighting to keep my voice firm and even, the cell phone held close to my mouth to make my voice loud and clear to my husband on the other end. All proceeds go to paying writers and running the website. If you are able, please consider supporting the Forge Literary Magazine, an independent, non-profit, all volunteer-run publisher. Editors will, at their discretion, make suggestions for improvements but changes are discussed with the writer before publishing. Punctuation and spellings of certain words (eg color/colour) will therefore vary from piece to piece. We aim to respect the voice, language choices and personality of each individual writer, reflecting the wide range of English variants used internationally. ![]() (*Occasionally, our published authors subsequently join our editorial team, foregoing their right to publish further work at the Forge Literary Magazine.) Our Copyediting PolicyįLM does not use a standard style guide, striving, instead, to achieve accuracy and internal consistency within each published piece. ![]() Here is a partial list of where we’ve published collectively (in no particular order): Tin House Online, The Manchester Review, LitMag, Fugue, The Lonely Crowd, Unthology, Hobart, Glimmer Train, Carolina Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, Santa Monica Review, Boulevard, Nimrod, New Orleans Review, 3:AM, frigg, Smokelong Quarterly, Ninth Letter, Fiction, Water~Stone Review, Baltimore Review, Ambit, Bridport Prize Anthologies, monkeybicycle, matchbook, Catapult, Cimarron Review, The Pinch, Fractured Lit, Fourteen Hills, Literal Latté, Confrontation, North American Review, Corium, Forge Literary Magazine*, Lunch Ticket, Jellyfish Review, Vestal Review, CRAFT Literary, Pithead Chapel, wigleaf, Atticus Review, Moon City Review, Fractured Lit, Hot Metal Bridge, Coachella Review, Everyday Fiction, Virago Press (Asham Award), Bath Short Story Award anthology, IS&T, among many others. Valerie Waterhouse, Stephanie Doeing, Dylan Brie Ducey, Dan Malakin, Frances Gapper, Barbara Barrow, Sandy Kline, Diane Hall, Sam Nicol, Katie Oliver, Mary Thompson, Jim Toal, Ana Robbins, Chelsea Thornton, Briana Loveall, Anna Bowen, Carol Ermis, Taylor RaucherĪuthor payments in 2023 are made possible, in part, by a generous donation from Louise Haggerty. Cork, Jillian Luft, Ashley Espinoza, Paul Chuks, Maggie Ayala, Daniel Andrade Amaral, Shelby Lummus Past Readers/Editors ![]()
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