Tag Archives: Len Kuntz

LEN KUNTZ: What I Know

Artistic, Submissions, , ,

Rain spat sideways while Mother tugged our hands until we were jogging.

Dad was drunk again, and he’d hit her this time. The bruises glistened like purple glass.

At a diner, Mother used the restroom.

My brother asked what I knew.

I told him, “Love isn’t supposed to be cruel.”

Len Kuntz is a writer from Washington State, an editor at the online magazine Literary Orphans, and the author of I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE AND NEITHER ARE YOU, out now from Unknown Press. You can also find him at lenkuntz.blogspot.com.

LEN KUNTZ: Trail

Adventure, Submissions, , ,

We were army kids, moving ten times in fourteen years.

Mother ruled the house like an angry nun. Dad seldom spoke, always thinking, thinking…

It wasn’t until our last move that he slipped up, the trail of dead bodies he’d left behind a connect-the-dot drawing of every place we’d lived.

Len Kuntz is a writer from Washington State and an editor at the online magazine Literary Orphans. His story collection The Dark Sunshine debuted from Connotation Press in 2014. You can also find him at lenkuntz.blogspot.com.

LEN KUNTZ: Miscarried Mermaids

Artistic, Submissions, , ,

It was their first vacation afterward.

She felt daring, dove off a cliff, the free-fall like a sort of second death.

Far under the sea, she saw her baby there—blue but alive, gurgling air bubbles, hands and legs splayed, looking like it only wanted to be held, mouthing, “Momma.”

Len Kuntz is a writer from Washington State and an editor at the online magazine Literary Orphans. His story collection The Dark Sunshine debuted from Connotation Press in 2014. You can also find him at lenkuntz.blogspot.com.