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Unsolicited Press strives to produce exceptional works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from award-winning authors. Unsolicited Press is based out of Portland, Oregon and focuses on the works of the unsung and underrepresented.

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Off I go into the weeds of manuscript edits for There’s No Future Where We Don’t Have Fire! It’ll be here in less than a year thanks to @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social! 🔥🔥🔥

A black TÜL pen, clicked open, rest on the first poem of part I of my book, There's No Future Where We Don't Have Fire. The poem is "Dawn Again." They say "Read sky in the morning" but I'm not a sailor. Nature has a way of catching seagulls so I don’t have to see endless streams of them on the beach at low tide. Earth sheds its treasures littered on a few miles of sand. August haze floats over the horizon and spray flings out to catch my feet when I lay a towel down. And soon the sun will dry everything up, every single thing. It takes an ocean not to break. Every year, my wife and I stare at each other, say it’s about time we make it back and reach our hands out toward the endlessness of the ocean. We’re moths. Our footsteps sink into the dry, glowing packets that become a more hardened surface. But that’s where the waves crash ashore. Cassandra said something, “take warning” maybe? But no one listens. You’ll see everyone strewn about, stuck and surrounded by planks of houses, wayward limbs, and the oil. A lot of oil. No one ever fucking listens.
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Preorder: The nineteen stories in Anne Leigh Parrish's People Ruin Everything blend magical realism with love lost and misbegotten. Throughout run the themes of broken marriages and those on the brink; missed chances, irreconcilable differences, and secrets hiding in plain sight.

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