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ARIEL'S DREAM
Literary Journal
COVID-19 POETRY & PROSE
We proudly present our contributing authors, poets, and artists and their remarkable works of art.
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Conversation with My Grandmother, in a Pandemic, Two Weeks Before Thanksgiving by Rosalie Hendon
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez Conversation with My Grandmother, in a Pandemic, Two Weeks Before Thanksgiving 1. “It will just be your...
Ariel's Dream
Feb 15, 20232 min read
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Stepping Back by Donna Harlan
Photo by Bruno Nascimento Stepping Back We walk through life with one foot in tomorrow, even if one is in today. The pandemic has taken...
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Jan 18, 20231 min read
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Two Ways of Looking at Plague/Nothing Changes by RC deWinter
Photo by Mayank Dhanawade Two Ways of Looking at Plague/Nothing Changes I. The steady rhythm of indifferent machines in the lazarettos is...
Ariel's Dream
Oct 31, 20221 min read
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Becalmed by Cora McCann Liderbach
Photo by Elina Emurlaeva and Unsplash Becalmed My life is a ship anchored at the pier of the pandemic – marooned for weeks, months, a...
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Oct 31, 20221 min read
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Recess by Jenna Lee Schifferle
RECESS A single bus, orange as the sun sits abandoned in an empty school lot Light illuminates the grounds and the ghosts as the swings...
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Oct 10, 20221 min read
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Six by Vincent Casaregola
Photo by Sincerely Media Six The recommended distance from one’s breathe to another’s, with a mask of simple cloth and the space of open...
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Sep 28, 20221 min read
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Panning for Gold During the Pandemic by Swarnal Borthakur
Photo by Ginming Pan Panning for Gold during the Pandemic Scoop up a handful of pebbles, where the mountain stream bends, swirl them in...
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Sep 28, 20221 min read
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Fighting COVID-19 by Lauren Leach-Steffens
Fighting COVID-19 by Lauren Leach-Steffens Like a war fought in some Baltic country; reading in the news that a couple thousand have...
Ariel's Dream
Jul 28, 20221 min read
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Re-Opening by David Radavich
Photo by Timothy Dykes RE-OPENING We’ve almost forgotten the doctors and nurses. The funerals. The story we’ve made is about us—our...
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Jan 27, 20221 min read
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Corona Photos by Gwynneth Green
Quarantine Mantra Crumbling Core Resilience Fortitudes Vision Grounding Reality The Artist Gwynneth Green is an artist who uses the...
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Sep 24, 20211 min read
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Beyond These Walls by Shirzad Mustafa
Photo by Markus Loke Beyond these Walls Stuck in a surreal painting Beyond these walls, clocks melting Sluggish time, present and future...
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Sep 15, 20211 min read
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Separation by Sophie Bird
Separation by Sophie Bird Creative Nonfiction As luck, fate, or excellent timing would have it, we were born mere miles and four hours...
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Apr 27, 20212 min read
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Hope by Jennie Devine
Photo by Wout Wanacker HOPE I want to carve hope into the air And shine a light into it The beauty this world Could be If everyone took...
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Dec 31, 20201 min read
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I Wish I Were My Dog by Alice Smith
Photo by JF Brou We are living under the shadow of uncertainty. The truth is we never know what will happen tomorrow. But today, tomorrow...
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Oct 30, 20201 min read
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Reaching for Better by Alice Smith
Photo by Matteo Vistocco The treadmill of life came to a halt, and stir crazy is running rampant. The world as we knew it has simply...
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Aug 15, 20201 min read
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How to Survive a Pandemic by Allison Heartly-Kong
Photo by Claire Brear When your friend—a disembodied head in front of a pixelated background—tells you her son placed towels underneath...
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Jul 18, 20202 min read
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Masks by Paul Iasevoli
Photo by Llanydd Lloyd Worn on Halloween and Mardi Gras, there was a time and place when masks, like in Verdi’s Ballo in Maschera, were a...
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Jul 18, 20201 min read
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You are Here by Aileen Hunt
Photo by Sebastian Herrmann Creative Nonfiction The maps arrive just in time, two days before the government announces a lockdown. Not...
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Jul 18, 20203 min read
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Refraction by Cami S. Newbold
Photo by Ashton Mullins Flash Fiction I always start by choosing the color of my lipstick. Tonight, it will be burgundy, the color of the...
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Jun 21, 20203 min read
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How to Waste an Afternoon During the Coronavirus Pandemic by Tammy Smith
Creative Nonfiction 1. Curl up in the middle of an old lumpy sofa sagging beneath the weight of your unmet needs and read Carrie Fisher’s...
Ariel's Dream
Jun 14, 20203 min read
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30 Tweets from the Sidelines of the Pandemic (2020) by Tracy Kane
Photo by Glen Carrie #1 April 13, 2020 Sirens, normally taken for granted, are prominent in the foreground of today’s soundscape. From...
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May 31, 20203 min read
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Pecans, Cognac, and COVID by Jason Gaidis
Photo by Sara Cervera Winning entry of Micro-Fiction/Nonfiction Fridays Challenge. 8 challenge words used: 1. nut 2. kittens 3. snore 4....
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May 18, 20202 min read
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