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The Birthing Hour: Café Worker’s Unexpected Shift
A woman's life takes an unexpected turn during a routine café shift when her body begins to transform in unimaginable ways. What starts as subtle changes—a tender ache, a slight swelling—quickly escalates into a surreal, accelerated pregnancy that defies logic and science.
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Published January 14, 2025
About the author
Annie Blake
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Annie Blake is an Australian writer and divergent thinker. She is a wife and mother of five children. She started school as an EAL student and was raised and, continues to live in a multicultural and industrial location in the West of Melbourne. Her research aims to exfoliate branches of psychoanalysis and metaphysics. She is currently focusing on in medias res and arthouse writing. She enjoys exploring symbology and the surreal and phantasmagorical nature of dreams. She is a member of the C G Jung Society of Melbourne and Existentialist Society in Melbourne. You can visit her on annieblakethegatherer.blogspot.com.au and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?....
Her poem ‘These Grey Streets’ was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize by Vine Leaves Literary Journal and her fiction ‘How I Swallowed a Snake’ was nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize by The Slag Review.
Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Grimoire Magazine, Spilled Milk Magazine, Boned, Anomalous Press, Visitant, Menacing Hedge, Lonesome October Lit, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Cerurove, Blakelight, The Wax Paper, Minetta Review, Hungry Chimera Magazine, The Lark, Misfitmagazine.net/, The Furious Gazelle, Gone Lawn, Futures Trading, Cat on a Leash Review, 45th Parallel, Communion Arts Journal, Borrowed Solace, Gambling the Aisle, The RavensPerch, West Texas Literary Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Riggwelter Press, Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, The Hunger, The Slag Review, Sky Island Journal, Trampset, Anomaly Literary Journal, Haikuniverse, North of Oxford, Blue Heron Review, Mascara Literary Review, Red Savina Review, Antipodes, Uneven Floor, The Voices Project, Into the Void, Southerly, Hello Horror, Verity La, GFT Press, About Place Journal, Gravel, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review and elsewhere.
She holds a Bachelor of Teaching, a Graduate Diploma in Education and is a member of the C G Jung Society of Melbourne and Existentialist Society in Melbourne. You can visit her on annieblakethegatherer.blogspot.com.au and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?....
PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING WRITING
EXPERIMENTAL PROSES 'The Ferris Wheel' & 'Culpability of the Chalice' forthcoming in the Fall 2018 issue - United States
POEM 'De Profundis' forthcoming in Spilled Milk Magazine - Tempe, Arizona
http://www.spilledmilkmagazine.com/is...
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'Folie A Deux' forthcoming in Boned - Denver, Colorado
POEM 'The Ritual' forthcoming in Neologism Poetry Journal (November Issue) - Greenfield, Massachusetts
POEM 'Birds' forthcoming in Gasher Journal (August online issue, Daily Doses) - Boulder, Colorado
https://www.gasherjournal.com/single-...
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'In the Name of the Son' forthcoming in Sakura Review (Ninth Issue, 2018) - Denton, Texas
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'Hell is For Children' forthcoming in Anomalous Press - International
POEMS 'The Man Who Hatched From the Moon', 'Salva Animam Meam', 'The Assumption', 'When I Fly Without Balloons' forthcoming in Visitant (2018) - Brooklyn, New York
https://visitantlit.com/2018/08/15/th...
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'The Concubine' forthcoming in Menacing Hedge (Summer Edition (June, 2018) - Seattle, Washington
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'Rue of Maiorum' forthcoming in Lonesome October Lit (13th July, 2018) - Sheffield, England
POEMS 'Desire', 'Sex Complex' & 'Vanishing Point' forthcoming in Neologism Poetry Journal (November Issue) - Greenfield, Massachusetts
EXPERIMENTAL PROSES 'Woman of the Apocalypse' & 'The Crying Room' forthcoming in The Cerurove (Issue 3) - International
POEMS 'Deus Meus, Deus Meus, Ut Quid Dereliquisti Me', 'The Prohibition of Aphrodite', 'The Rooting of Birds', 'Eating Roses', 'The House' and 'Child of the Well' published in Neologism Poetry Journal (April Issue) - Greenfield, Massachusetts
https://www.neologismpoet
Annie Blake is an Australian writer and divergent thinker. She is a wife and mother of five children. She started school as an EAL student and was raised and, continues to live in a multicultural and industrial location in the West of Melbourne. Her research aims to exfoliate branches of psychoanalysis and metaphysics. She is currently focusing on in medias res and arthouse writing. She enjoys exploring symbology and the surreal and phantasmagorical nature of dreams. She is a member of the C G Jung Society of Melbourne and Existentialist Society in Melbourne. You can visit her on annieblakethegatherer.blogspot.com.au and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?....
Her poem ‘These Grey Streets’ was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize by Vine Leaves Literary Journal and her fiction ‘How I Swallowed a Snake’ was nominated for the 2018 Pushcart Prize by The Slag Review.
Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Grimoire Magazine, Spilled Milk Magazine, Boned, Anomalous Press, Visitant, Menacing Hedge, Lonesome October Lit, Neologism Poetry Journal, The Cerurove, Blakelight, The Wax Paper, Minetta Review, Hungry Chimera Magazine, The Lark, Misfitmagazine.net/, The Furious Gazelle, Gone Lawn, Futures Trading, Cat on a Leash Review, 45th Parallel, Communion Arts Journal, Borrowed Solace, Gambling the Aisle, The RavensPerch, West Texas Literary Review, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Riggwelter Press, Lady Blue Literary Arts Journal, The Hunger, The Slag Review, Sky Island Journal, Trampset, Anomaly Literary Journal, Haikuniverse, North of Oxford, Blue Heron Review, Mascara Literary Review, Red Savina Review, Antipodes, Uneven Floor, The Voices Project, Into the Void, Southerly, Hello Horror, Verity La, GFT Press, About Place Journal, Gravel, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite Poetry Review and elsewhere.
She holds a Bachelor of Teaching, a Graduate Diploma in Education and is a member of the C G Jung Society of Melbourne and Existentialist Society in Melbourne. You can visit her on annieblakethegatherer.blogspot.com.au and https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?....
PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING WRITING
EXPERIMENTAL PROSES 'The Ferris Wheel' & 'Culpability of the Chalice' forthcoming in the Fall 2018 issue - United States
POEM 'De Profundis' forthcoming in Spilled Milk Magazine - Tempe, Arizona
http://www.spilledmilkmagazine.com/is...
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'Folie A Deux' forthcoming in Boned - Denver, Colorado
POEM 'The Ritual' forthcoming in Neologism Poetry Journal (November Issue) - Greenfield, Massachusetts
POEM 'Birds' forthcoming in Gasher Journal (August online issue, Daily Doses) - Boulder, Colorado
https://www.gasherjournal.com/single-...
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'In the Name of the Son' forthcoming in Sakura Review (Ninth Issue, 2018) - Denton, Texas
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'Hell is For Children' forthcoming in Anomalous Press - International
POEMS 'The Man Who Hatched From the Moon', 'Salva Animam Meam', 'The Assumption', 'When I Fly Without Balloons' forthcoming in Visitant (2018) - Brooklyn, New York
https://visitantlit.com/2018/08/15/th...
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'The Concubine' forthcoming in Menacing Hedge (Summer Edition (June, 2018) - Seattle, Washington
EXPERIMENTAL PROSE 'Rue of Maiorum' forthcoming in Lonesome October Lit (13th July, 2018) - Sheffield, England
POEMS 'Desire', 'Sex Complex' & 'Vanishing Point' forthcoming in Neologism Poetry Journal (November Issue) - Greenfield, Massachusetts
EXPERIMENTAL PROSES 'Woman of the Apocalypse' & 'The Crying Room' forthcoming in The Cerurove (Issue 3) - International
POEMS 'Deus Meus, Deus Meus, Ut Quid Dereliquisti Me', 'The Prohibition of Aphrodite', 'The Rooting of Birds', 'Eating Roses', 'The House' and 'Child of the Well' published in Neologism Poetry Journal (April Issue) - Greenfield, Massachusetts
https://www.neologismpoet
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