Tag: fiction
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A Love Affair with Death
March 2024 Web Feature by Brandon Ligon Brandon Ligon is an Arizona-based writer and composer with passions in soundscapes and the surreal. Dreams, night, and nonhuman narrators are major inspirations for his work, constantly blurring the boundary of accepted reality. His art strives to reveal the hidden nuances to our daily lives. This piece was…
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Call for Submissions
Time is running out! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue, but there’s only three days left! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue is…
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Call for Submissions
Time is running out! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue, but there’s only a week left! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue…
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This Is West – Things Lost
The diner was a little sweaty this time of year. The heat in the kitchen was unbearable, the parking lot burned hot as a frying pan, and flies clung to the outside of the windows in small swarms, delicate legs in the dozens crawling around in what little shade the sills had to offer, granting…
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Call for Submissions
It’s that time again! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue. Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue is well on its way. Additionally, we…
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Call for Submissions
It’s that time again! El Portal is currently accepting submissions for its Fall 2017 issue. Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline 11:59pm, March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here The Spring 2017 issue is well on its way. Additionally, we…
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This is West – The Adventures of Toast Girl
I found Jeanie playing hacky-sack with a circle of friends outside the theater building before school started and asked her to walk with me. “This is going to be strange, and kind of embarrassing, but I have to tell you something,” I said as we walked. “Claudia, you can tell me anything,” Jeanie said, concerned.…
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This is West – A Breath
Darren knew the moment he opened his eyes that it was too early to be awake. Pale light illuminated the dusty blinds, but did nothing to combat the morning darkness. The old radio beside the bed pronounced the time in blue: 5:47 a.m. For a moment he stared up at the ceiling and took in…
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Call for Submissions
It’s time! Today’s the submission deadline for the Spring 2017 issue of El Portal, so make sure you get your potential publications sent to us by midnight. The next submission period won’t begin until January, so this is your last chance for awhile! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally.…
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This is West – Fortunes
“You gotta be shitting me,” Gulliver said for maybe the third time since striking up a conversation with the Asian guy whose car broke down along the freeway near the store. “You traveled all this way, halfway around the world, just because of some fortune teller? That’s one of the craziest damn things I ever…
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El Portal – Fall 2016
Readers can now access the PDF version of El Portal’s Fall 2016 issue. Click on the image above to access the PDF file. If you have any questions about the Fall 2016 issue, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu. Full List of Contributors: An Interview with Joseph Somoza Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie “Certain Things Are Likely” Gaylord…
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This is West – Lawrence of New Mexico
In 1855, the US Army created the United States Camel Corps in hopes the foreign animals would serve the country’s expansion westward. By 1863, the project disbanded and the camels were released into the wild of the American Southwest. Lawrence, of New England, peddled his bicycle across the empty desert road. Patches of fine red…
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This is West – A Withered Reflection
The lingering heat ruined the rain. There was no torrential downpour sweeping in on a cool wind. It didn’t cleave the sunbaked summer in two. It didn’t arrive with low, auspicious thunder and purple bolts of lightning. Instead, it fell in unsatisfying specks for days, exacerbating the already oppressive humidity, clogging every throat and drawing…
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Welcome Back! (Now Accepting Submissions)
El Portal is officially back from its summer vacation! Be on the lookout for the return of This is West this Friday, August 5th. We’re also now accepting submissions for the Spring 2017 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are welcome internationally. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline October 31st. For Terms of…
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El Portal – Spring 2016
Readers can now access the PDF version of El Portal’s Spring 2016 issue. Click on the image above to access the PDF file. If you have any questions about the Spring 2016 issue, please feel free to contact the editor at el.portal@enmu.edu. Full List of Contributors: Phillip Parotti “Antiquarian Mishaps” Stephen Cloud “Pop Runs Out of Gas,…
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Call for Submissions (Last Chance!)
There’s just a little over 24 hours left until the deadline for this semester’s issue of El Portal, so get them in quick! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here Be on the…
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Call for Submissions
Turn out’s been great so far, but that doesn’t mean we’re done yet! If you’re interested in submitting a piece for the Fall 2016 issue of El Portal, there’s only five days left! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click…
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Call for Submissions
Did you know El Portal has been published since 1939? Get in on our long publication tradition and submit to the Fall 2016 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here El Portal also recently released…
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Call for Submissions
It’s two weeks until the deadline and El Portal is still accepting submissions for its Fall 2016 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here El Portal also recently released its Fall 2015 issue,…
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Call for Submissions
The deadline’s fast approaching, but El Portal is still accepting submissions for its Fall 2016 issue! Fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, photography, and art are all welcome internationally! Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Deadline March 31st. For Terms of Submission: Click Here For Submission Guidelines: Click Here El Portal also recently released its Fall 2015 issue, which we’re…
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