Virtuous Liar/John Ballantine

Virtuous Liar/John Ballantine

Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch   You Must Learn the Joys of Sinning   by John Ballantine AAA You must learn to lie a little, bend the rules, and make the game work for you. You must learn the joys of sinning to make real money. Then we’ll wrap...
Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Tonya K. Dale/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by 916237 (Pixabay) * * A GOOD DECISION   by Tonya K. Dale     I know why the dog next door cries at night.   He’s the black-and-white mutt, the shaggy prisoner of a fenced-in portico…four feet by four feet. Cement floor.   No one is...
Stephanie Golisch/CNF

Stephanie Golisch/CNF

v You Come from a Beautiful Country by Stephanie Golisch   Ten in the morning and the sun broils my dark hair. I trail behind my husband, Chris, and our friend, Frank. We hike in silence through the meadows that skirt the mountains in the Guangxi province of...
True Tales of a Fictitious Spy/Excerpt

True Tales of a Fictitious Spy/Excerpt

* * * * * * “Charles de Gaulle’s Top Spy” * * * * * * The following is an excerpt from True Tales of a Fictitious Spy: A Hungarian Gulag Grotesquerie, written by Ferenc Aladár Györgyey and Paul Sohar, with contributions from  György Faludy, Gyula...
A Legacy of AIDS / Molly Krause

A Legacy of AIDS / Molly Krause

NIAID photo  Nina Pham, the Texas nurse who cared for Ebola patient Eric Duncan, leaves National Institutes of Health after being declared free of the disease....