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Five Minutes explores five minutes of a life in one hundred words. Five minutes is edited by Susanna Baird, with editorial support from managing editor Maria s. picone, newsletter editor kate meen, and founding reader bobbi lerman, plus our rotating team of guest readers, who you can meet in the latest newsletteR. Five Minutes was founded in October 2020, with the Salem (Mass.)-based writing group Carrot Cake Writers supplying the journal’s first pieces. We’d love to read your five. Submit here. 

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Aug 30
Aug 30 Backstage

Jim DeFilippi

I idolize Bob Dylan. When my son got a work-study assignment to prepare Bob’s dressing room for a campus concert, I drove six hours.

Aug 23
Aug 23 Drugstore

Susanna Baird

She’s sorry if she seems out of it, she just got back, she was gone. Gone to New York, her son passed away …

Aug 16
Aug 16 Office

Christi Byerly

She said, “We need to talk.”

My heart leaped to my throat.

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