the room is on fire

the room is on fire

Returning to the Wild

introducing root smoke

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azia archer
Dec 11, 2025
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As some of you may know, I got my start in publishing through the small press world. In 2012, my poem Yellow Painted Toe-Nails was published in Haunted Waters Press. It was the first piece I had ever submitted—and the first time I allowed my writing to live anywhere outside a personal blog.

After that, I kept writing and submitting while fully immersing …

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