@lanaspendl
Creative writer and editor. Writing website: lanaspendl.com
Flash: The Docents Invite Two Mediums
Flash: The Docents Invite Two Mediums
Essay: Multitude of Hosts
Essay: Multitude of Hosts
At a reading I attended last month, an essayist exploring the nature of holes mentioned that the philosophical term for what surrounds a hole is a host. A hole, of course, cannot exist without its host.
Story: Birthday at the Hermitage
Story: Birthday at the Hermitage
In the church in the fields, the original statue of Our Lady of Sonsoles sits near the sacristy. A copy stands at the altar. Legend has it that whenever attempts were made to carry the original from the grounds, it grew heavier and heavier until it could be carried no more. Sonsoles, clearly, did not […]
Essay: The Squirrel at the Monastery
Essay: The Squirrel at the Monastery
Poem: On the Lido Deck Before Sunrise
Poem: On the Lido Deck Before Sunrise
Personal Essay: Weekend House
Personal Essay: Weekend House
A refugee from the Bosnian War, Lana Spendl recalls family weekends in the country outside of Sarajevo: her friend with one cow, her grandmother’s garden, butterflies, and her father’s Bosanski lonac.
Short story: Those Who Point Like Arrows
Short story: Those Who Point Like Arrows
Short story: Silencing
Short story: Silencing
Essay: Leslie’s Mansion in the Sky
Essay: Leslie’s Mansion in the Sky
Essay: Women Like Them
Essay: Women Like Them
Poem: After the Date
Poem: After the Date
By Lana Spendl Featured Art: Writing by Gari Melchers I went on a date with a girl who knows how to live her life.On the restaurant patio where we sat, I told her I needed tofinish my novel. And “D…
Poetry reading: As God Intended
Poetry reading: As God Intended
Personal essay: Geography of Peaks and Dips and Lights
Personal essay: Geography of Peaks and Dips and Lights
Short story: Family in the Foreign World
Short story: Family in the Foreign World
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