Tag Archives: Lynn Kozlowski

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: The Professor

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The Goldwater Professor of Early European Literature is fourth in line at the checkout. He has bananas, yogurt, low-sodium soy sauce, unsweetened soy milk, and silky tofu. He is wearing a college t-shirt, baggy shorts, and sandals. His mind is on the ordering of the conclusions of his Goethe essay.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as The Citron Review, The Zodiac Review, Molecule, 50-Word Stories, Every Day Fiction, The Dribble Drabble Review, and Friday Flash Fiction. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Outside the Ice Cream Shop

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Four tanned old women sit on a wooden bench. Friends in shorts and colorful tops. No conversation. Each is working on a generous, diet-breaking, double-scooped ice cream cone on the sweltering day. They are happy, engrossed in the cold pleasures of their choices. No worries but the race against drips.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as The Citron Review, The Zodiac Review, Molecule, 50-Word Stories, Every Day Fiction, The Dribble Drabble Review, and Friday Flash Fiction. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: The Departed

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His once dear ex-wife has died at 59, 30 years after their sad divorce. No words, sightings, or news between them for half his life. Cause of death unreported. It’s as if he’s lost a slumbering phantom limb—with all real feeling gone and now none even to be imagined.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Sporting a New Baseball Cap

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Before his hopeful outing with a visiting former love, the old man buys a new baseball cap. He shapes the bill with care. Looking in the mirror from under the just-so curve, he sees for a clear moment back to the first time he ever felt he looked truly cool.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Swimming Lessons

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The old man recalls his father’s curt lesson—an unexpected toss off the deep end of the dock. Watching his son-in-law wade in for classes with his little son, the old man ponders the long distance between “sink or swim” and blowing bubbles in the shallows of a heated pool.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: The Physician’s Plans

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He thinks it sheepish after all, without religion as he is, to plan to store the ashes of his body in an urn, but he knows too well the smiling piecemeal passing of parts on med school anatomy tables. He will not have his hand in theirs—his science notwithstanding.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review,  Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Wording the Note

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Dear, sorry to have missed you today.
Saddened so to have missed seeing you today.
Sorry, my dear, I yearned for our being together today.
Today I missed you being here. Why weren’t you?
Dear? Are you even sorry you missed our day?
Missed today! Sorry to have you dear.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Doctoring his Heart

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The old man, gulping the evening air, pedals stiffly through the lanes of his project on the streamlined, gearless bicycle from his youth, his bald, thin legs on display and a whistle between his teeth as a horn—having decided to be un-embarrassable before the prospect of a longer life.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review,  Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.

LYNN KOZLOWSKI: Keeping Up Appearances

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The old man can no longer drive this whole trip himself, starting predawn without stop to make his brother’s place by lunch. His wife leaves late, drives slow, takes breaks. But she gives him the last mile, so he might seem again, on arrival, something of what he was before.

Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, pif magazine, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.