Kristine Ong Muslim
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Everyone he knows from childhood is disguised as a lake. Big lake. Frozen lake. Scenic lake. There’s even a lake that holds a trumpet. He has no name for that particular lake. The trumpet floats uselessly on the water’s surface as Muddy lake, always waiting for things to go wrong, whooshes below so that the trumpet will sink.
Kristine Ong Muslim‘s stories and poems have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Boston Review, Contrary Magazine, Hobart, Narrative Magazine, Potomac Review, Southword, The Pedestal Magazine, Third Wednesday, and Weber. She has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize. Her publication credits are listed here.
Kristine Ong Muslim is technical support by day and a poet by heart. Her individual attempts within each poem is precise yet her styles are broad and eclectic. All females, after reading an Ong Muslim love poem, will let their hair down.
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