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About Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley is the author of Antlers in Space and Other Common Phenomena, forthcoming from Split Lip Press. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in places like DIAGRAM, Juked, Drunken Boat, PANK, and Queen Mob's Tea House. She serves as assistant editor of Sundog Lit, and you can follow her on Twitter @HeyMelissaWiley.

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

Denise Enck

Mud hardens on my combat boots as I step behind my sister through the sickle of woods dividing her property from her neighbors. The son of the previous owners, born intellectually disabled and fond of … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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