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Eric Chandler

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Eric Chandler is the author of Kekekabic (Finishing Line Press, 2022) (Honorable Mention for Poetry in the 2023 Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards) and Hugging This Rock (Middle West Press, 2017). His writing has appeared in Northern Wilds, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Talking Stick, Sleet Magazine, O-Dark-Thirty, Line of Advance, Collateral, The Deadly Writers Patrol, PANK, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Consequence Magazine, and Columbia Journal. Chandler was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014 for creative nonfiction. He’s a three-time winner of the Col. Darron L. Wright Award for poetry. Chandler is also a US Air Force veteran of both the active duty and the Minnesota Air National Guard. He flew 145 combat missions and over 3000 hours in the F ...more

Pattern of Life

Leo. Somewhere along the Superior Hiking Trail. 2014.

It’s empty where you were.

Just a big gaping hole.

-from “Bloodshot Eyes” by Trampled by Turtles

The vet depressed the plunger on one syringe, the sedative. She gave him the second syringe and then listened to his heart with a stethoscope. Leo was lying down in what we called his “food pose.” He was lying on his stomach, straight ahea

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“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.”
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Ernest K. Gann
“My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?”
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“Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.

I do. But I like to hear you say it.

Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”
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“If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.”
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