<p>Bring Your Words is a collection of essays, poems, and short stories.</p><p> </p><p>These words bound here in their final form all began in various places and stages. Some as snippets of scenes scrawled into margins of notebooks as half-remembered dreams, others as stanzas missing that poignant turn of phrase, at least a few were assignments born into the world on a looming deadline, polished to perfection long after the class concluded.</p><p> </p><p>Wherever ideas come from, penned and morphed into shape have found a home here. Within this anthology, we ten authors bring you our words. Words we love, words we hate, words we may never use again to show glimpses into worlds far vaster than their page count gives them credit for here. We hope you take delight, sigh, cry, laugh out loud, and most importantly enjoy them all as you read; as much as we have enjoyed writing them.</p><p> </p><p>Authors: J.D. Akins, Kaleb A. Brown, C.D. Gillikin, Carol May, Ivy Obuchowski, Abby O'Meara, Lila Scott, Kathryn Orwig, L.L. Renno, S. Alastor Node</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>