Mid-May, my husband and I flew across the country from Western Washington to Western New York to visit our parents: one father and one mother. They are eighty years old. A day will come, not so far from today–one year? Two? Tomorrow?–when I will not have the opportunity to hear another word from my mother’s…
I’ve been buying tablecloths. We have one table only in our small home, and it is a new table, purchased after twenty years of using a secondhand table, a crack in the base zip-tied ten years into the using. Our new table extends to fit family on days when we all come together, and we…
I go for walks these days. I walk with intentionality, cracking the day’s time, suspending the tasks I absolutely must do with the insertion of departures–out the door I go. I heighten my awareness during these thirty-to-sixty-minute outings. Here, to the right, rounding the bend, roots of thick-trunked evergreens buckle the narrow path, and up…
Thank you, wonderful contributors, for your wondrous work in 2023–congratulations!
Friday, October 13th: the perfect day to launch our annual literary horror issue. Something wonderful happens–a switch, a one eighty, a backwards drive on a roundabout–when I give myself over to the season of horror. To throw a party in spite of the darkness. To claim and reclaim. To lay it out: Here is the…
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Every early summer, I start to pine for the Dungeness Spit. For those who aren’t familiar, this narrow band of rocky sand is the longest spit in the United States, about five miles long, stretching into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, part of the Salish Sea. I reside one scenic-hour drive from this special…
Greetings, Spring. Here in name and date, yet you still hunker, hail dropping like small, felled birds from my blue sky. But I will greet you anyway, because I love you, and I want you to be here. In Volume 4, Issue 2 of Club Plum, the ones we love are often out of reach.…
Quiet Club Plum publishes reverberating talent, resonating in the minds and hearts of the editors and judges at Sundress Publications once again. THREE pieces were chosen for the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology: one WINNER and two FINALISTS: Nicola Brayan / Linger: Art Winner! Greg MacDonald / dd041720-alt: Art Finalist! Laura Goldin / “You…
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Happy 2023, and thank you for being a part of Club Plum’s fourth year kick-off. We are thrilled to be here and to share some creations with you. 2022 was rough for many of us, but I am not going to list all our trials here. I want to go forward, not in forgetting but…
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