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Francine Witte

Francine Witte is a poet, flash fiction writer, and playwright. She has had work in Sensitive Skin, Passages North, Cream City Review, Mid-American Review and many others. Her latest books are a poetry book, The Theory of Flesh, from Kelsay Books, a flash fiction collection, Dressed All Wrong for This from Blue Light Press, and a novella, The Way of the Wind, from Ad Hoc Fiction. She lives in New York City and on twitter @francinewitte.

Poem

In The Shark World

Francine Witte

In the shark world, even, there are rules, laws about sleepswimming and razor teeth and what the sharkbelly wants. Like my father and his own rules, laws for his kingdom, our tiny apartment with the neighbors’ fo...
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Writing

Any Other Street

Francine Witte

Any Other Street would be made of asphalt, black pitch pillowing in the August heat. But this street is woven with bones and ash and anything else leftover when a dream dies. It’s the kind of street you try to av...
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Poem

Three poems

Francine Witte

Dream Lover All those nights I wanted John to call. See how good? See how really good I can quit you? But he didn’t listen. Or call. Just shows up in a dream last week with the past slung over his shoulder, ...
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Art

Cabin

Francine Witte

Every night when the sun sets, I see her. Just over my shoulder like a blind spot in the rearview. Always. Been like this forever. I tell this to my best friend Al, and she laughs her giggly laugh, the one that makes me ...
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
Mugshots collage, from the collection of Mark Michaelson
Sensitive Skin 13 – Table of Contents
The Editors
Here's the complete list of all the pieces from our 13th issue, along with the back cover, a collage of mugshots from the collection of Mark Michaelson, submitted for your perusal....
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Charles Gatewood vintage photographs
Charles Gatewood Vintage Photographs & Contemporary Collages
Charles Gatewood
“I want to make photographs that kill.” - Charles Gatewood For over 50 years, Charles Gatewood explored and documented the underbelly of the United States. His early...
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the perfect child
Francine Witte
i am a descendant of those that have survived for centuries & my mother wanted me to be the perfect child i am still amazed that people know how to make doors their ingenuity ba...
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Louise Bourgeois Spiders SF MoMA
Sensitive Skin Best Of 2017
Francine Witte
Welcome! Time to ring in the old and ring out the new. Or whatever. Here's the best of 2017 picks, from our editors and contributors. Remember, it didn't necessarily come out in ...
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Flying, photograph by Holly Van Voast
Blue Portrait
Francine Witte
Matt was a blind date, the only one I ever went on. He was an acquaintance of a girl who had the locker next to mine senior year. She thought I’d like him because he was an artis...
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