Audrey T. Carroll is the author of the What Blooms in the Dark (ELJ Editions, 2024) and Parts of Speech: A Disabled Dictionary (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her writing has appeared in Lost Balloon, CRAFT, JMWW, Bending Genres, and others. She is a bi/queer and disabled/chronically ill writer. She serves as a Diversity & Inclusion Editor for the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, and as a Fiction Editor for Chaotic Merge Magazine. She can be found at http://AudreyTCarrollWrites.weebly.com and @AudreyTCarroll on Twitter/Instagram.
When the finches land, time stops. Rose-feathered faces, sun- flower seeds too big Biting off more than you can chew is different with a beak that can crack a hard outer shell But the joy of splitting open berries, scavenging their soft insides, leaving skins behind— One of their white-streaked bellies is bulbous, surely ready to lay her eggs any… Read more →
They are harm less, gentle giant docile long eye lashes gentle gentle… And yet: They consume. We pretend ours less GROTESQUE Even for them, we paint pretty pictures— long necks, spotted patterns caged contained categorized taxonomized in neat little boxes safe, known and then: How strange to learn their consumption of bones (a necessary enrichment, mind— instinct, a body knowing… Read more →