When you are here I want you gone, and when you are gone I want you here – we only just hang together, you and I. The push-pull energy between us is an uneasy equilibrium, always ready to explode, or implode. Without you I can expand into the day, read outside in the late afternoon … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Prose
Boy and the Bike by Summer Clark
I stood with a small group of people, huddled close to one another, as they mourned the dead. The sky overhead rolled with thick grey clouds; a constant churning mass of darkness that spit torrential rain down upon the earth. Water slicked down our coats, and followed the path the of our clothes until it … Continue reading »
Water, Water by Eric G Muller
Back in the fall of 1990, I marched my sixteen fourth graders down the hill to the Convalescent Center in Eugene, Oregon, armed with recorders, three music stands and pages of sheet music. Free of the classroom, the girls began to skip and hop happily along the road, while some of the boys punched and … Continue reading »
Art / Pacific Northwest / Poetry / Prose / Writing
Voice Catcher a journal of women’s voices & visions is open for submissions until 4/30/13
http://voicecatcherjournal.org/submissions VoiceCatcher publishes new writing that has not previously appeared elsewhere, including online sites. If you’ve published a piece on your own website, blog or self-publishing site, please remove it before submitting it to us. We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask you to notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. And we’ll applaud you for … Continue reading »
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The Blue Hour Anthology Now Available
Here is the link to the etsy site. The Blue Hour Anthology is now available . We have provided free pdf copies to Contributors. The Blue Hour Anthology is 155 pages of poetry, prose, photographs, painting, and sculpture. It features a vast array of styles and subjects, perspectives and life experiences. It boasts some of … Continue reading »
A Roof Over Her Head by Susan Breeden
Marcus Jackson is doing quite well for himself. His 1940s-era home was recently updated by a Harvard-educated architect. While it isn’t the largest house on the block, it’s the only one with Egyptian mosaic tile on the master bath ceiling, Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors throughout, and a subzero wine cooler stocked with Chateau Lafite Rothschild … Continue reading »
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St. Patrick’s Day Submissions
We have one poem scheduled for St. Patrick’s Day. If anyone else would like to join the merry bandwagon, please email your writing, photography or art about to this holiday to bluehourmagazine@gmail.com. The editors will choose three submissions for 3/17/13. Thank you for reading, contributing and following The Blue Hour. Continue reading »
FRESHLY CUT TEARS by Gigi Jaatinen
“Writing is a struggle against silence.” – Carlos Fuentes I am sitting at the rockery I created under a tree in my mother’s yard, weeping. Realizing, again, that the ones who were supposed to protect me since infancy, as an only daughter and an only sister, later an only sister-in-law, and a niece, were the … Continue reading »
The Current Market by James Curtiss
There was a time when coke was much cheaper. But that was after all in the 90s; and what’s more, its rise in price is nothing compared to what taxes have done to smoking. Two when I started, seven bucks is the going rate for a pack of smokes in Ann Arbor. But coke is … Continue reading »
A Call for Submissions about Home
Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.-Paul Theroux We’d like your writing, photography, and art about the concept of home. A place that evokes joy or angst, or both at the same time. Filled with memories that knock on walls and patter on old windows. We’ll start publishing submissions on this theme beginning … Continue reading »
