Prose #13: Amy Cipolla Barnes

"Dry Cleaning" & "An Incident in Pottowa County" by Amy Cipolla Barnes

(Gritty South) In these two stories, evil is concealed under the guise of love and redemption at the expense of those most vulnerable.

This is the thirteenth installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers.

Amy Cipolla Barnes is the author of Ambrotypes (word west press) and Mother Figures (ELJ Editions). Her words have appeared in many publications, including The Citron Review, JMWW, trampset, Flash Frog, No Contact Mag, Leon Review, Complete Sentence, The Bureau Dispatch, Nurture Lit, X-R-A-Y Lit, McSweeney’s, Southern Living, SmokeLong Quarterly, and others. She’s been nominated for Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and long-listed for Wigleaf50 in 2021, 2022, and 2023. She’s a Fractured Lit Associate Editor, Gone Lawn co-editor, Ruby Lit assistant editor and reads for The MacGuffin, Best Small Fictions, and Narratively. Find her on Twitter at @amygcb.

• Publication Date: July 2023
• Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

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