The Sponge
by Julianne DeMartino
Publication will be featured in Beyond Words Magazine Issue 67!
There’s a Joke in There Somewhere
I can’t believe I’m starting this on New Year’s Day. It was either this or changing my diet, so this writing project won faster than I could say intermittent fasting. Suddenly I find myself a resident of New Mexico.
FEATURED IN:
Dialogue At The Bar With a Drinking Partner
Content to Be Alone
I can’t believe I’m starting this on New Year’s Day. It was either this or changing my diet, so this writing project won faster than I could say intermittent fasting. Suddenly I find myself a resident of New Mexico.
FEATURED IN:
Collecting Memories: Diary Entries
It’ll be Alright
Open Mic Poetry – Poets Choice (Published March 2023) by Julianne DeMartino
What a Difference a DeY Makes
His arms wrapped around me wholly. Big, expansive and as powerful as his reach within the art community. Up until an hour ago he was a complete stranger. He still was in all the ways except one.
New Mexican
New Mexico is no joke. New Mexico is the Hispanic cousin to NYC, and it wears a t-shirt that says: I don’t owe you shit.
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Story Featured on How to Blog’s Humans of the World
Dear Returns & Exchanges
Dear Returns and Exchanges,
It has most recently befallen me I may be missing an essential element of instructions from a product I purchased from you some years ago. The approximate purchase date was on or around my birth.
Dear Connie
Dear Connie,
I never meant for so much time to pass in between this letter and my last. I guess life got the better of me. Small tasks seem to have piled onto one another until only now I realize they’ve evolved into a routine from which I cannot escape.
Olden Days
It was only safe at the top of the stairs. The landing was just wide enough to fit my sister and I.