The Pensieve is an online literary journal dedicated to publishing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by emerging writers who have had few opportunities to publish their work, if any. We currently publish on the first, third, and the occasss

The Pensieve is an online literary journal dedicated to publishing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by emerging writers who have had few opportunities to publish their work, if any. We currently publish on the first, third, and the occasional fifth Wednesdays of each month. Most of the fiction we publish is stand-alone short stories, but we also host a few continuing series from our regular contributors. The name of this journal is inspired by an interesting magical artifact described in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This device, called the pensieve, was a large basin of water. The wise wizard Albus Dumbledore would touch his wand to his temple and withdraw a silver thread of memory, then place it in the pensieve. When the protagonist, Harry, plunged his face into the water, he was able to observe and live the memory which had been selected. The pensieve has become for us an icon, a metaphor for the act of writing and reading. It is usually a struggle to find the right words to put down on paper, the words that best express our thoughts and memories. But when a writer has artfully constructed a literary work, regardless of the genre, the readers can be immersed—almost unconsciously—in a world and life their mind has imagined. For us, this is what represents literary beauty. We hope that the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry we share with you here, in The Pensieve, will resonate with you in that most immersive manner.

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