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Well what the heck is a
jelly bucket?
It’s an archaic slang term for a lunch pail, formerly used by coal miners and other laborers residing in Appalachia.
You've found your personal jelly bucket; a great place to fuel your literary interests. Jelly Bucket is the place to for book reviews, author interviews and insightful stories all curated by our staff and MFA students of the Bluegrass Writers Studio.
Ian has come to visit Clare after not seeing her in quite some time. As they clean up dinner together, shocking details emerge…
The thing sat in there with him in his windowless gray office, a thing about the size of a person…
If I could call her an act of God, my Mother, I could believe in the earthquake unhinging her throat’s seabed. I could trust her decibels thrumming through me, vibrational frequencies juddering my cells until I am swept out into the sea of her.
By Darian Bianco
Growing up as an only child on my grandparents’ farmland, I was hungry for the impossible. I caught the bug early on, and any book called “unrealistic” was a book I wanted to get my hands on— give me mermaids, give me fairies, give me swords and robots and chosen one prophecies. I wanted it all.
