SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Readers who write in response to one of the prompts listed each month in Splintered Glass, may see their work presented here on the last week of that month. Though poems are preferred, short prose work will also be considered for publication.

Guidelines for submission:

  1. List Splintered Glass prompt which inspired the work in the text of your email.
  2. Submit material to be published as Microsoft Word document. Submission should not be longer than one page. Editing will not be provided, please be careful.
  3. Include two brief sentences about the author. Example: Michael Whozits is the author of A Book and The Curl, a blog. He is a retired pilot and avid surfer.
  4. Submission must arrive no later than the 3rd Wednesday of the month in which the Splintered Glass prompt appeared. Only one reader’s submission will be selected for any given month.
  5. Send submission to karoxby@gmail.com.

 

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SPLINTERS FOR MARCH 2025

  1. Attention Writers; National Proofreading Day is March 8. Have you immediately jumped to proofing this page? That’s fine, but I suggest you try your own work. Also, it might be nice to offer your skill to a fellow writer. Note: I find reading aloud can improve proofing.
  2. How do you feel about tools? Natonal Worship of Tools Day is March 11.
    1. Do you have a favorite tool? Why is it your favorite?
    2. Do have a tool you hate? What made you hate it?
  3. .National Awkward Moments Day is March 18. We’ve all had one or more. Choose one (or more) to write about so others can sympathize or simply realize they are not alone.
  4. Are interested in science (any form)? Tell your readers what drew you to your science ands why they, too, might enjoy your science.

 

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EYE OF THE NEEDLE

Silken rivers ran

In silver white streams

Slender ribbons fjording

The flower-fired banks

 

Truth stands beside them

Clothed in robe of revealing light

But fear drags

At their hungry eyes

And their heads are turned away

Mournful, tragic figures

Gazing into emptiness

 

Silken rivers

In silver white streams

Slender ribbons fjording

The flower-fired banks

 

Safari into the Soul Country

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THE UNIVERSE

 

This universe is naught but dust

Blown out in one great burst,

So say the scientifically anointed.

If this should really be true,

Is it not evidence of a God—

A Supreme Being exploding that star

To give birth to a universe of life?

Or, is this tale just the scientists’ way

Of letting we mortals know

That only scientists work like gods?

If that is truly so, then why

Is the scientist that I know

Considered a god when I am sure

I know far more than he of God?

 

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HOW MANY ARE WE?

How many are we?

We, who have known

atoms seething

within our flesh

erupting in pain:

the violent flaming

of a world being born

 

Who have felt the sun winds

stir our childhood cradle

as a universe breathed to life

 

Or, still before—

before there was that All

our numbers have given us,

before that all our minds can understand?

 

How many are we

who remember before

there was light?

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AUTHOR NOTES

“EYE OF THE NEEDLE” carries a title the author considered for her novel set in the future. Sadly, she only completed a first draft of this story. The reader might like to check out the author’s poem,“Safari Into the Far Soul Country,” which appeared on this website in May of 2024.

REFRACTIONS—an essay by Kathleen Roxby

“THE UNIVERSE,” is included this week for March 15 World Contact Day (extraterrestial). While the author was not a church goer, it is obvious that he maintained a belief in a God. He did attend church in his youth though not often due to the fact that his family moved frequently because of his father’s support of a miner’s union formation and where they did live often had no church. This poem originally appeared in his collection Reflections on a Lifetime.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“HOW MANY ARE WE?” is included this week for March 15 World Contact Day (extraterrestial). As a child the author was introduced to the concept of space travel and its potentials because her mother was fascinated by these ideas. They often conversed on the subject and the potentials right up till her mother’s death.

#worldcontactday

 

 

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Readers who write in response to one of the prompts listed each month in Splintered Glass, may see their work presented here on the last week of that month. Though poems are preferred, short prose work will also be considered for publication.

Guidelines for submission:

  1. List Splintered Glass prompt which inspired the work in the text of your email.
  2. Submit material to be published as Microsoft Word document. Submission should not be longer than one page. Editing will not be provided, please be careful.
  3. Include two brief sentences about the author. Example: Michael Whozits is the author of A Book and The Curl, a blog. He is a retired pilot and avid surfer.
  4. Submission must arrive no later than the 3rd Wednesday of the month in which the Splintered Glass prompt appeared. Only one reader’s submission will be selected for any given month.
  5. Send submission to karoxby@gmail.com.

 

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SPLINTERS FOR MARCH 2025

  1. Attention Writers; National Proofreading Day is March 8. Have you immediately jumped to proofing this page? That’s fine, but I suggest you try your own work. Also, it might be nice to offer your skill to a fellow writer. Note: I find reading aloud can improve proofing.
  2. How do you feel about tools? Natonal Worship of Tools Day is March 11.
    1. Do you have a favorite tool? Why is it your favorite?
    2. Do have a tool you hate? What made you hate it?
  3. .National Awkward Moments Day is March 18. We’ve all had one or more. Choose one (or more) to write about so others can sympathize or simply realize they are not alone.
  4. Are interested in science (any form)? Tell your readers what drew you to your science ands why they, too, might enjoy your science.

 

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SPLINTERS FOR MARCH 2025

  1. Attention Writers; National Proofreading Day is March 8. Have you immediately jumped to proofing this page? That’s fine, but I suggest you try your own work. Also, it might be nice to offer your skill to a fellow writer. Note: I find reading aloud can improve proofing.
  2. How do you feel about tools? Natonal Worship of Tools Day is March 11.
    1. Do you have a favorite tool? Why is it your favorite?
    2. Do have a tool you hate? What made you hate it?
  3. .National Awkward Moments Day is March 18. We’ve all had one or more. Choose one (or more) to write about so others can sympathize or simply realize they are not alone.
  4. Are interested in science (any form)? Tell your readers what drew you to your science ands why they, too, might enjoy your science.

 

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DANGERS OF GLORY

The path of power answers all the call

The path is oh so short

Of certain death

 

The self-deceived desire to lead

Lures righteous men

from honored goals

To a corrupted end

For within its core

Glory hides the tainted seed

 

The world laments slowly

That deep grave where

Conquerors all must sleep.

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