Bio

An author, poet, educator, wordlover, Sterling Warner's works have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, journals, and anthologies such as In the Grove, The Flatbush Review, Leaf by Leaf, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape, American Mustard, the Atherton Review, The Chaffey Review, The Literary Yard, and Metamorphoses. In addition to fiction and nonfiction, Warner's has written five volumes of poetry: Rags and Feathers, Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Edges, and Memento Mori. Currently, he lives in Union, WA and is working on a collection of flash fiction.

wax
seal
stamped on
envelopes,
love letters received
from Ms. Lonely Hearts long before
tender technology begat sizzling cyber-sex—
salacious, steamy sites linking abandoned, forlorn, solitary souls on the brink

where keyboards replace pens writing romantic missives
charitable chat rooms replace
fastidiously
crafted heart
felt words
trite
safe