The Puritan is a literary journal that publishes prose exclusively. If your first impulse is to wonder: \"Hey, would you like to read my new word sonnet?\", the answer is no. If you do send us poetry your poems may be printed, read, and critiqued by our associates1. Please submit prose: flash fiction, short fiction, creative non?fiction, or excerpts of longer works (which may be serialized). As a general rule, please try to keep your work between 500 and 7,500 words.