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Sand Mermaids by Heather Minette
Originally posted on The Blue Hour:
My mother is walking in the garden, her bare feet are calloused and covered in dirt, her toenails painted red. The hem of her sundress is wet from the water pail and her skin is sticky with sweat, but her hair smells of the honeysuckles that grow wild on…
Sand Mermaids
My mother is walking in the garden, her bare feet are calloused and covered in dirt, her toenails painted red. The hem of her sundress is wet from the water pail and her skin is sticky with sweat, but her hair smells of the honeysuckles that grow wild on our chain-link fence and the gardenias […]

The Blue Hour welcomes editor Heather Minette
Originally posted on The Blue Hour:
We’re pleased to announce writer Heather Minette will join The Blue Hour team as editor. Heather Minette received her Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from the University of Houston – Clear Lake and is currently studying for a Master of Arts in American Literature. Her poetry and prose was…
Approximate Tuesday by Susan Sweetland Garay available for presale
Originally posted on The Blue Hour:
Approximate Tuesday is a profoundly moving series of poems written by Susan Sweetland Garay. Susan’s writing is influenced by nature in the Pacific Northwest and her travels. This book is a 148 perfect bound paper back. About the Author Born and raised in Portland Oregon, Susan Sweetland Garay received…
Rooftops and Other Poems by Heather Minette
Originally posted on The Blue Hour:
The Blue Hour is delighted to announce the launch of its second full length single author poetry collection Rooftops and Other Poems by Heather Minette. This book is a poetry collection honestly written to discover a deeper understanding of her life experience traveling, and finally finding her home. This…
Rooftops and Other Poems published by Blue Hour Press
My book, Rooftops and Other Poems, is now available for order from Blue Hour Press: http://bluehourpressbookstore.bigcartel.com/product/rooftops-and-other-poems-by-heather-minette “Heather Minette writes poems of discovery through love and travel. In Rooftops and Other Poems, she imbues the faraway and familiar with the sparkle of imagination and a searching precision. This unique book enchants and strikes the reader with […]
A Burial
The city lights and winding roads, the bathtubs and harmonicas, the time he shaved her legs. She wrote it off so painfully, striking hard against each key. It’s all ink on paper now, set inside a box. She’s pulling up the floorboards, nails separate from flesh, blistered fingers bleed. She brought him […]
Assembly
Did they warn you about me? he asks, wearily. And suddenly I am ill with empathy. In his tired eyes, I see my own mistakes. My own fuck-ups and follies. My own sinister ghosts, my own misgivings. My own readiness to be someone else. To be fair, I tell […]
The Blue Hour Anthology Now Available for Preorder
The Blue Hour Anthology Now Available for Preorder.
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