The Rose & Thorn Podcasts
Showcasing podcasts of the best short fiction, essays, and poetry from your favorite literary e-zine.
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Episodes
Thursday Apr 30, 2009
Thursday Apr 30, 2009
A raw and tender portrait of a Bosnian refugee woman striving to turn her streetwalking profession into a legitimate and respected enterprise in Munich, Germany.
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Friday Apr 17, 2009
Monday Dec 01, 2008
Monday Dec 01, 2008
"Joe is dead and the dynamic between mentor and apprentice takes on a new form in his passing."
Sunday Oct 26, 2008
Sunday Oct 26, 2008
A poem that embraces visual fragments of youth, a mashup of images that fly by like highway scenery when one looks back on the devastatingly gorgeous span of time called childhood.
R&T Best of the Net (Sundress Publications) nominee for 2008.
Friday Oct 03, 2008
Friday Oct 03, 2008
"What dark reasons lurk behind the habit of reading the obituaries?"
R&T Best of the Net (Sundress Publications) nominee for 2008.
Thursday Oct 02, 2008
Thursday Oct 02, 2008
The raw dark majesty of the owl devoured me, making this perhaps the best I've written.
R&T Best of the Net (Sundress Publications) nominee for 2008
Saturday Aug 23, 2008
Saturday Aug 23, 2008
Year of Gratitude inspirational essay. Read it at http://barbaraquinnyearofgratitude.blogspot.com
Saturday Aug 23, 2008
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
Tuesday Aug 19, 2008
Tuesday Aug 19, 2008
"Absolution" is one writer's journey into a personal history littered with coal mines. The ancestors that toiled in these depths provide the inspiration for this piece of creative nonfiction—as well as every written word that shall follow.
R&T Pushcart nominee for 2007.