Kelly Ariel Taylor
“What can I say that will reach across time? What would shatter this computer screen a fraction of an inch? If I could just stick a finger through the machine, if I could press my eye to the crack, maybe I would feel it in the contact of skin to skin, eye to eye.”
Latest Published Piece
Poohsticks
An original short story published in the Spring 2022 Issue of Calliope Art & Literary Magazine on pages 13-20.
“To thine own self be true. No. Not to the self. To her.”
After having his time sharing recently restored, a young father takes his daughter to play Poohsticks in the hope of restarting their relationship.


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Kelly Ariel Taylor
Kelly Taylor is a writer and editor based in Orange County, California. She works as the Editor in Chief of Calliope Art & Literary Magazine and as a freelance developmental and copy editor for Future House Publishing. Her latest short story, “Broken Things,” will be published this December in the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle.
Published Work
Don't look down, look up. The sky is always beautiful.
