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“You Were the Storm” Poem by Bindi Lavelle

You were the storm
Crashing on the coast
Breaking stones with your waves
You were the storm
With strength unknown
Direction uncertain
But with determined purpose,
Seeking land
Rushing, hurtling to the sand
Wet impact
The path traced in force
You are the amber sky
Whispering promises to the wind
Chasing the warm sea air
Into the embrace
Of the starlit ocean.

Bindi Lavelle is a proud Wakka-Wakka woman, based in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia,where she lives with her partner and cats. Bindi is an editor for ibecomethebeast.com and is a lover of all things strange and unusual. Her works have appeared in Black Petals, Dark
Passions Magazine and The Chamber. Bindi’s collection “Menace” is available on Amazon.


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Update: More Stories Coming

More wonderful stories are going up all the time. Right now, four have been scheduled starting January 21st.

On January 21, “Rowan” a supernatural fantasy by Naomi Elster will appear. Naomi Elster’s writing has been published and performed almost 30 times, including in Imprint, Crannóg, and Meniscus, and at the Smock Alley Theatre. She has campaigned for reproductive justice and pay equality. She has a PhD in cancer and leads the research department of a medical charity. Originally from Laois, in the Irish midlands, she now lives in London. 

On January 22, the story will be “Water Pump” Fiction by Yuan Changming. Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 16 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2109 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022, with his debut (hybrid) novel Detaching just released by Alien Buddha Press.

January 23 will feature “Flamenco” a fantasy love story by Mehreen Ahmed, Mehreen Ahmed is Bangladeshi-born Australian novelist. She has published ten books to date and works in Litro, BlazeVox, Chiron Review, Centaur Literature. While her novels have been acclaimed by Midwest Book Review, Drunken Druid Editor’s Choice, shorts have won contests, Pushcart, James Tait, and five botN nominations.

On January 24, you will find “The Spike Buck” a flash memoir by Maxwell Adamowski, Maxwell Adamowski is a Canadian survivalist and woodsman who lived alone for a year in the wilderness performing a series of rite of passage rituals. “The Spike Buck” is one of the first stories in his book, CarQuest.

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