October 29, 2025 In Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction, Uncategorized By berlian

Positivity Bias

In the words of editor Gillian Burnes, these stories have "defiantly happy endings." But what is your definition--or bias toward--what a happy ending means? I have two stories in this anthology, "Waiting for the Rapture" and "Not So Far, Far Away." Even my own interpretation

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January 15, 2024 In Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction By berlian

Rock Salt Journal Spring 2023

"Most of the large bird’s feathers had been stripped off, but frozen near the tips of its wings was a sparse collection peppered with short black dashes. Gnarled black talons looked to be grasping for some invisible prey but were tangled in fishing line. The

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