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Francine Witte

Francine Witte is a poet, flash fiction writer, and playwright. She has had work in Sensitive Skin, Passages North, Cream City Review, Mid-American Review and many others. Her latest books are a poetry book, The Theory of Flesh, from Kelsay Books, a flash fiction collection, Dressed All Wrong for This from Blue Light Press, and a novella, The Way of the Wind, from Ad Hoc Fiction. She lives in New York City and on twitter @francinewitte.

In The Shark World

Francine Witte

In the shark world, even, there are rules, laws about sleepswimming and razor teeth and what the sharkbelly wants. Like my father and his own rules, laws for his kingdom, our tiny apartment with the neighbors’ fo...

Any Other Street

Francine Witte

Any Other Street would be made of asphalt, black pitch pillowing in the August heat. But this street is woven with bones and ash and anything else leftover when a dream dies. It’s the kind of street you try to av...

Three poems

Francine Witte

Dream Lover All those nights I wanted John to call. See how good? See how really good I can quit you? But he didn’t listen. Or call. Just shows up in a dream last week with the past slung over his shoulder, ...

Cabin

Francine Witte

Every night when the sun sets, I see her. Just over my shoulder like a blind spot in the rearview. Always. Been like this forever. I tell this to my best friend Al, and she laughs her giggly laugh, the one that makes me ...