Our Grotesque and Gorgeous
In August, my husband flew across the country to visit his father. My father-in-law is eighty-two, and he is our only remaining parent, so time ticks. I suggested this visit might be the time to ship the fish tureen to our home. In my father-in-law’s home, the large, ornate fish tureen fits easily inside his…
2026 Best of the Net Nominations!
To Sit and Look
This is a new thing. To sit and look, which is to say, to gaze through my home windows, where I am lucky enough to see wild, evergreen branches and patches of sky beyond. This looking is not casual, but premeditated, where I slide my table place mat, ferrying my lunch salad to the side…
The Daffodil Still Grows
My husband walked into the house last Friday evening with a bundle of daffodils, just because, along with baguettes and Italian sausage and provolone because it was Friday, and this is the evening of the week where we give in to total relaxation and easy culinary pleasures. The work week is done. It is time…
Not Nothing
January 2025 has been hard for many of us. I won’t talk about my personal loss in detail because it is too large for this space. But I will mention that it is a loss that is blanketed with regret, which creates a lump from my throat to my heart. I’m angry at one person,…
Pushcart Prize Nominations for 2024 Work (2026 Anthology)
Congratulations to all 2024 Club Plum contributors. We were honored to share your work with the world. Special congratulations to our Pushcart Prize Nominees! In May 2025, the Pushcart Press will notify journals whose submissions were chosen for inclusion in the 2026 Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses anthology. The anthology will be published…
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We Summon
Where I live, the aurora borealis painted the skies last week, a few days in a row, so I am told. I very much want to see them one day, and even though I had a second chance, and a third, I did not stay up late to watch; no, I did not say to…
Best of the Net 2025 Nominations!
Best of the Net 2024 Art Winner!
Hurrah! Let’s congratulate Artist Carolyn Schlam, whose oil-on-canvas artwork, Little Sister, was chosen as an Art Winner by the Sundress art judge for this year’s Best of the Net publication. See Little Sister below and also at the BOTN page here. This makes three consecutive years that Club Plum contributors’ work has been chosen by…
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