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Questions for Planning Purposes

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Questions for Planning Purposes

is there a ghost
did you incur any loss
did you improve
(melancholy horn solo)
did you forgive
did you take
did someone else receive

Emily Pinkerton lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, and her writing has previously appeared in ZYZZYVA, Juked, BlazeVOX, Foglifter, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), Bloom (Alley Cat Press, 2018) and Adaptations (Nomadic Press, 2018). She was a 2020 Fellow at The Writers Grotto, and a 2017-2018 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco. More of Emily’s publications can be found at thisisemilypinkerton.tumblr.com, on twitter (@neongolden), or on instagram (@thisisemilypinkerton).

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Strange Dream
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Kevin James Thornton is a popular social media personality and comedian currently on Tour. “Strange Dream” was shot on a Yashica 124 and Kodak Portra 400 film in his studio in Nashville, TN. 

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