Savage Mountain/John Smelcer

Savage Mountain/John Smelcer

Author John Smelcer at the summit of Mt. Sanford, Alaska. Photo taken by his brother.     Savage Mountain: An Excerpt John Smelcer’s 50th book just came out this summer. “Savage Mountain”  is a mountaineering novel set in 1980. It’s the story of...
Karen Schubert/Fiction

Karen Schubert/Fiction

Moving Box by ChristianReese   * * Saving a Space   by Karen Schubert     The blueberry ginger muffins were still warm, so I’d left the basket uncovered. I was balancing it and a thermos of coffee with one hand, using the other to get around a box that...

Mollie McNeil/Fiction

      Underpass     by  Mollie McNeil     I’m stuck in my babysitter’s broken-down Toyota at a stinky gas station, but I don’t really mind because I’m gliding Wanton Red across my lips. Mwah! I kiss the rearview mirror. Don’t you...
João Cerqueira/Fiction

João Cerqueira/Fiction

 Photo by danfador (Pixabay) *     “For the Love of Nature”   An excerpt from The Second Coming of Jesus, by João Cerqueira   This excerpt, “For the Love of Nature,”  is from the novel  The second coming of Jesus,...
DIRT/Fiction

DIRT/Fiction

Dirty Hand by LeMast   * Dirt   “There is no such thing as absolute dirt: it exists in the eye of the beholder.” Mary Douglas   By Peter Wortsman   “Dirt is the Devil’s diversion!” Miss McBride told us with a voice shrill as chalk on the blackboard...