Category: Short Story
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Highway 50
March Web Feature Highway 50 – Ahsha M. Vigil The payphone beeps loudly, the operator’s monotone voice pours through the earpiece. “Please deposit one nickel for five more minutes. You have thirty seconds before I must disconnect the call.” The hitchhiker looks for another nickel in his empty pockets. The phone goes silent and beeps…
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Fall 2019 Prize Winners
Congratulations to our ENMU Student Prize Winners for Fall 2019 FICTION 1st place: Natalie Franco Torres for “A Second Chance” 2nd place: Timothy Gettle for “The Light of a Lavender Sky” POETRY 1st place: “Bicycle” by Cody Wilhelm 2nd place: “Another Myth” by Bridget Richardson 3rd place: “Laid to Rest” by Falyn Benavidez PHOTOGRAPHY 1st…
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Last Day for El Portal Submissions!
Today is the last day for submissions to El Portal‘s fall issue. Write West and send it our way! We will accept submissions until 11:59:59 p.m. If you have something you want to submit, send it to the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu. Please visit our official Guidelines and Terms of Submission pages for official rules. Questions…
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Call for Submissions (El Portal, Fall 2015)
El Portal is currently seeking submissions for its Fall 2015 issue. If you have any questions about submitting to El Portal, please feel free to drop us a line at el.portal@enmu.edu. For submission guidelines and official rules, please visit our official Guidelines and Terms of Submission pages for more information. Also, be sure to check…
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The Well by Jenni Baros (Web Feature)
“Well’s dry again,” Travis says. He kicks the front door shut against the gnawing cold. His arms are full of damp pinon for the fire. The tang of manure and fresh hay follows him in. “It’s winter,” I say. My fingers are numb from chasing dishes around in a sink full of suds. I’ve been…
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Write West. Send it our way.
We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled ’85 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying for latte with his Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm…
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Cowpokes, aliens, writers, send us your submissions….
We want stories and poems about West. West is a bullet-riddled ’85 Grand Marquis, a gleaming spaceship hovering over Roswell, a cowboy paying for latte with his Amex-card, an alien wondering where in the world to get the golden iPhone. West is where it hurts, West is the rattlesnake you didn’t hear, the dust storm…
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Silencing Rivers by Jade Smith
I reached down to the bottom of the back bar. I poured another tequila shot and slid it down the crumbling lacquer to Marcos. He didn’t look down as he caught it. He had been sitting there the entire night watching me tend. I wiped the tables down and I could feel his body shift…
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El Portal’s First Web Feature
Check out El Portal‘s very first web feature (“Silencing Rivers”) by Jade Smith. Our hope is to publish a web feature every month between August and May. If you have any questions about El Portal‘s web features, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu.
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