Susan Isla Tepper presented her darkly comic play CLANDESTINE in an Equity Premiere Staged-reading, hosted by SHOPTALK, on June 10 at EAG Guild Hall Theatre, NYC. Her latest Novel “Hair of a Fallen Angel” was published by Spuyten Duyvil Books. A twenty-year writer, she’s written 12 published books of fiction and poetry and 7 stage plays. Honors include 21 Pushcart Prize Nominations. Her play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review. A Youtube music video for her latest novel at: https://youtu.be/W2HVIc4NrqY
SIGN
By Susan Isla Tepper
The sky came on ferocious
all hell breaking loose
A sign from the cosmos
your assessment.
In swim trunks
your naked face seemed
to pucker
turning the same
sickening flaring shade.
I refused to act bleak
sliding into the lap pool.
You screamed at me
to get out and began
to shake in one
long vibrating quiver.
Screaming again.
This great volcanic eruption
from this most mortal of men.
Poet/photographer Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, The American Journal of Poetry, Spillway, Plume, Diode, The Pedestal Magazine, Duende, Vox Populi, Gargoyle, Elysium Review, and elsewhere. Her photos are published worldwide, including the covers of The Pedestal Magazine, Witness, Heyday, Pithead Chapel, The Mas Tequila Review, and a six page spread in River Styx.. She’s authored eleven poetry collections, most recently, TRIGGERED, (MacQueens) and BRAZEN. (NYQ). A multi Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Alexis recently won Best MicroFictions, 2025. She calls the Mojave Desert home.
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