Tom Jenks
Founder and Co-Editor at Narrative Magazine
Poetry, prose, performance and publishing.
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1 month ago |
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A Memoir Share Facebook Threads Reddit Forward Print Copy link I first met him in the fall of 1972. I was one month free of the army in Arizona, the government having decided there was an overabundance of lieutenants and that letting me head off to graduate school at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop would be just fine.
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2 months ago |
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A Story Share Facebook Threads Reddit Forward Print Copy link My mother lies in the hospital bed, scrubbed clean and sleeping. Her hair is short and smooth, luminous gray against her skin in the light of this overcast morning. For years I’ve seen her—on the rare occasions I’ve seen her—only in honey-blonde wigs.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
narrativemagazine.com | Tom Jenks
Dance with me, Tim said. It was summer, a few weeks before the start of seventh grade. We were in Tim’s room, sitting facing each other on adjacent single beds. Midnight had come and gone, and outside the window a streetlamp loomed like a hostile giraffe, its head heavy at the end of a curved metal neck, seeming to peer with glowing eyes at the two boys in their beds. Dance with you? I said after a moment. That’s your dare? Yes, Tim said, his voice low and fluttery.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
narrativemagazine.com | Tom Jenks
On the first day of the trip, standing knee-deep in a sculptural fountain, you emptied my purse into the water on a lark. You’d been carrying it for me all day through the wet heat of July, the leather sticking to your shirt, and I suppose you’d had enough. You wanted to feel the breeze passing freely between your arm and ribs. Leaning against the doe and fawn with their twin stone bellies, you smiled at me, holding eye contact while you did it.
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Jan 6, 2025 |
narrativemagazine.com | Tom Jenks
A Story Share Facebook Threads Twitter Reddit Forward Print Copy link In celebration of twenty years of publishing, we asked prior Narrative Prize winners to introduce new writers to our readers. Here 2009 prize winner Maud Newton introduces Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’s short story “Roanoke Rapids,” in which a young girl’s buoyant spirit carries a reader through a whirl of adult difficulties while preserving all the wonder of life. In “Roanoke Rapids” joy lives alongside confusion and sadness.
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