Edie Meade

Edie Meade is a writer, visual artist, and mother of four boys in Huntington, West Virginia. She has published two collections of poetry, Every Day Is A Love Letter, and Birth & Other Stages of Death. Say hi on Twitter @ediemeade.

As Solid As an Ashtray and Emits More Smoke

by Edie Meade | Oct 25, 2021 | flash fiction

It is a cast-iron frying pan filled with cigarette butts. The handle is just the right size for my hand and just out of reach on the freezer. It is an ashtray. That’s all it is, and I don’t want it. “You don’t want...

War Destroys A Man From the Inside Out

by Edie Meade | May 21, 2021 | micro

Shrapnel bores out of Daddy when he chops too much wood. They float to a place near his spine and Momma fishes them out with tweezers and a needle. Shrapnel bits don’t look like bullets. Sometimes they look like...

Edie Meade

As Solid As an Ashtray and Emits More Smoke

War Destroys A Man From the Inside Out

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