Ron L. Dowell
Ron L. Dowell holds two Master’s degrees from California State University Long Beach. In June 2017, he received the UCLA Certificate in Fiction Writing. His short stories or poems have appeared in Oyster Rivers Pages, Rain on Rooftops Review, Writers Resist, Stories Through The Ages Baby Boomers Plus 2018 and in The Poeming Pidgeon. He is a 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow and a current member of the Community Literature Initiative Poetry Publishing Class. Ron recommends the Teen Intervention Program.
I hesitated, these guys had reputations, and I'd almost gone to jail with them before behind some failed purse snatching caper, and, there was Skillet, one of his eyes glared straight at me, the other one gazed above my head.
Recent Articles:
A Fly on the Wall
by Cyrus Sarfaty
Dictator in a Bottle
by Jessie Seigel
Unlikely Saints, July 2024
with James Norman, JP Bartley, Walker Rose, and Daryl Gussin
The Metaphor Peddler
by Regina Rheda
Custom Roll
by Koushik Banerjea
"Home Movies," "Catholic Lust: A Million Mad Clocks," and "Probing Puppets and Peeping Toms"
by Peter Marra
"Dear Abby:," "Diner," and "Haiku and Sources"
by Zev Shanken
Three from Portland, Oregon
by dan raphael
Process of Elimination (continued)
by A Sardine on Vacation
"The Higher the Heat, the Hotter the Soup Pot," "Being This," and "The Heavy Task of Saving the World"
by James Grabill
'A sweet cloud dissolves in wet eyes,' 'who is hiding in military uniform,' and 'The phallus of the gun is afraid...'
by Mykyta Ryzhykh
Deborah Makes Peace
by Marcie Roman
More Style
by Crockett Doob
Why the War Movie Matters
by Scott Holleran
Egoless
by Scott Holleran
"Promises I Make From Under My Desk" and "Man vs. Bear"
by Sophie Farthing
"Time Melts" and "I Have Been To Places Of Great Death"
by Nolo Segundo
Building a Better Babel
by Zovi and Iggy Oddity
Best President
by Heikki Huotari
His Calling
by Charlotte M. Porter
"november" and "ode to an addict(ion)"
by David LaBounty
"Hey Joe" and "Flagging Scotland"
by Lynn White
"Bread," "Cosmic Alignment," and "Full Speed Ahead"
by Marc Vincenz
A Preview A Review A Knot
by R.J. Adams
Midnight Oil
by Ava O'Malley
The Boss's Surprise
by Mark Tulin
Freedom
by Cal Massey
Party Voucher
by Yuan Changming
"Your grown child plays make believe" and "The story you told when you drove down for parents' weekend after I came out"
by Hannah/Hans Kesling
Each Our Own Font
by A Sardine on Vacation
Mask Off
by Sjoerd van Wijk
"Overheard by a Democrat at the RNC...," "A Polygraph...," and "A Series of Active Inquiries in the Wake of Apple's Delivery"
by Jen Schneider
"Bullet Points," "23 Grams," and "Joseph K."
by Howie Good
"Better angels," "The catch," and "Embrace"
by Jeremy Nathan Marks
"DOG FROG GOD" and "Geena"
by Xander Bilyk
"Dance of Women" and "The Wonderful Kandinsky"
by Joan Slatoff
"Accident," "Fear," and "Luck"
by Joan McNerney
Shifts
by Jerome Berglund