Other People's Flowers

This week we're featuring a short piece by Paige Olausen, Disclaimer.

Paige Noel is a hobbyist writer and college student. Paige is an environmentalist by training but uses writing as an outlet. The piece is a disclaimer and in a way a love-ish letter. It was a scary moment that tested her trust, a step forward in a relationship.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a short story by Stephen McGuiggan, Let this

Damn Day Break.

Stephen McQuiggan was the original author of the bible; he vowed never to write again after the publishers removed the dinosaurs and the spectacular alien abduction ending from the final edit. His other, lesser known, novels are A Pig’s View Of Heaven and Trip A Dwarf.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a non-fiction essay, A Penny for 50 Cent's

Thoughts, by Robert Fox.

R.J. Fox is the award-winning writer of several short stories, plays, poems, a memoir, and 15 feature length screenplays. Two of his screenplays have been optioned to Hollywood. His first book – a memoir entitled Love & Vodka: My Surreal Adventures in Ukraine was previously published by Fish Out of Water Books. His most recent publication was a collection of essays entitled Tales From the Dork Side. His forthcoming novel Awaiting Identification arrives in May 2018.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a short story by Steve Carr, called A

Woman of the Arts.

Steve Carr, who lives in Richmond, Va., began his writing career as a military journalist and has had over 170 short stories published internationally in print and online magazines, literary journals and anthologies. Sand, a collection of his short stories, was published recently by Clarendon House Books. His plays have been produced in several states in the U.S. He was a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a short story by Susan P. Blevins, A

Sicilian Tale. Susan is reading her own work.

Susan P. Blevins was born in England, lived 26 years in Italy, and has

now resided in the USA for the past 25 years, first in Taos, NM, and

currently in Houston, TX. While living in Rome she had a weekly column

in an international, English-language newspaper, writing about food

and restaurant reviews primarily, though not exclusively. Since living

in the USA she has written pieces on gardens and gardening for

N. American and European publications (Sunset Magazine, Garten

Praxis).

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a short story by Michael Anthony.

Michael Anthony is a writer and artist living in New Jersey. He has published fiction, poetry, illustrations, and photographs in literary journals and commercial magazines. Most recently these include The Furious Gazelle, the Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, and The Regal Fox. The American Labor Museum exhibited Michael’s photojournalism essay, “Mill Ends,” on the waning textile industry.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a short story by Jenean McBrearty.

Jenean McBrearty is a graduate of San Diego State University, who taught Political Science and Sociology. Her fiction, poetry, and photographs have been published in over two-hundred print and on-line journals. She won the Eastern Kentucky English Department Award for Graduate Creative Non-fiction in 2011, and a Silver Pen Award in 2015 for her noir short story: Red’s Not Your Color. She lives in Kentucky and writes full time ⸺when she’s not watching classic movies and eating chocolate.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a non-fiction essay by Terry Barr.

Terry Barr is the author of Don't Date Baptists and Other Warnings from My Alabama Mother (Third Lung Press), We Might As Well Eat: How to Survive Tornadoes, Alabama Football, and Your Southern Family (TLP). His work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner, storySouth, Wraparound South, Full Grown People, Left Hooks, and Vol 1 Brooklyn. He blogs at Medium.com and lives in Greenville, SC, with his family.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring a short story by Pete Stavros, called Twenty

Good Years. Twenty Good Years is due to be published in Thoughtful Dog (https://www.thoughtfuldogmag.com/).

Peter J. Stavros is a writer in Louisville, Kentucky. His work has

appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, The

East Bay Review, Hypertext Magazine, Fiction Southeast, Juked, and

Literary Orphans, among others. Peter has also had plays produced,

including as part of the Festival of Ten at The College at Brockport –

SUNY, for which he was named Audience Choice Winner. More can be found

at www.peterjstavros.com.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we're featuring poetry by Jeffery Berg.

Jeffery Berg's poems have appeared in Impossible Archetype, El Balazo

Press, glitterMOB, the Leveler, Court Green, Rove, Map Literary,

Assaracus and Harpur Palate, and No, Dear. A Virginia Center of the

Creative Arts fellow, Jeffery lives in Jersey City and blogs at

jdbrecords.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com