Harper Lewis

Joined July 2025

246 stories

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I'm a subversive weirdo nerd witch who loves rocks. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction may have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.😈

My words are mine. Suggest ai use and get eviscerated.

MA English literature, CofC

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Plain Planes
They say this can’t be love, it’s too episodic for them to understand that depth always matters more to me than breadth (or even breath).
By Harper Lewis17 days ago in Poets
Soul Mates
A church and a bar, an ivory dress and a white t-shirt. Lightning struck twice, engraving them in me, the one who always returns
By Harper Lewis18 days ago in Poets
Text and Subtext
Haiku of Now challenge results were released on Friday. Haiku challenges are easy winners’ page reads, but good grief, the judges had to slog through over 1300, minus the ones that were disqualified for not adhering. A couple of mine probably fell into that pile—if you read beyond the blurb, it was a very specific challenge—no past, no reflection, no past tense, no interpretation—just a lived-in moment. Some of mine reflected or interpreted, may have even had a past tense verb somewhere.
By Harper Lewis19 days ago in Writers
Chess
This was my father’s chessboard. It isn’t all I have left of him: I have a vase with sand and shells from the ruins of the castle I built to return him to the ocean, in front of his favorite lighthouse,
By Harper Lewis19 days ago in Poets
A Year Later
This time last year, I was going out of my mind. Even had a bad mushroom trip on my birthday. Bad idea out of the gate, that one.
By Harper Lewis19 days ago in Writers
Sing to me!
It only comes once a year (much to everyone’s relief), but today is my anniversary of screaming into the world. Still screaming 54 years later.
By Harper Lewis19 days ago in Writers
My Birthday Toast. Content Warning.
Raise your glass to all that ass!
By Harper Lewis19 days ago in Poets
Cosmic Conceit
Suppose I hadn’t come before, never disturbed the cosmic plane by existing, never grabbed a comet by the tail, never threw stardust
By Harper Lewis19 days ago in Poets
Footloose
I’ve been here, on this rock, for over half a century, defending myself against the Trojan chorus: antistrophe erasing strophe, refusing dialogue,
By Harper Lewis19 days ago in Poets
Going to Jail for my Birthday
I’m going to jail for my birthday this year. My husband and I went out for birthday eve dinner to two of our favorite restaurants, Marelli’s in Belmont and Constantine’s in Gastonia. Marelli’s has the best bread on the planet (and a to-die-for house-made balsamic reduction. Constantine’s is the best dining experience in the area.
By Harper Lewis20 days ago in Writers
One
One look and one word sealed the deal. It’s engraved in my blood, that first look, when my eyes hit you like lightning,
By Harper Lewis20 days ago in Poets
The Norton Shakespeare
I don’t pull this book off the shelf often for a simple reason—it’s heavy, so heavy that it’s a tome, not a book, and I can look up most of the Shakespeare I need in paperback Norton anthologies, but when I need this book, there are few substitutes that can give me everything I need. I had trouble finding it today, thinking it already lived on a recently curated shelf in the room where I breathe best.
By Harper Lewis20 days ago in Writers