BLJ issue 10

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Julia Aloi is a writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is an editor for BatCat Press, where she also practices a variety of bookbinding techniques. She serves as the managing editor of the award-winning literary magazine, Pulp.

Cotton Candy wisps of clouds – pale pink, grace the oceanic skyline like angry tufts of cotton candy the herons sing (silently), the breeze rushes and speaks in tongues galore. the clouds part ways, distant lovers once more, replaced by a foreign thing, a bold thing. the trees thrash around and around, infinite madness; the breeze now roars like that of a tortured metal carcass and the eye of god screams; shoving blunt needles into the muddy earth in hopes of restoring the cotton candy clouds

BALLOONS Lit. Journal ● Issue 10 ● Oct 2019


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