A Quiet Root

We comb through hundreds of literary magazines to bring you one stellar poem or flash fiction piece every weekday.

“The Third Consort” by M. Cynthia Cheung

Jane Seymour, the favorite (but only
after she died), married the king eleven days
from the day he beheaded
her predecessor. Imagine a bride

knowing that.

Read it in swamp pink

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