Sides of the times by J. Palombo W hat a crazy time. It’s too often that I’m feeling sick to my stomach, nauseous while listening to and watching the circus that has become our Congress. Men and women from our lumbering two-party system developing...
Photo by Mukiibi John Elijah on Unsplash *** In The Marketplace by O. Alan Weltzien My wife are I are on a mission as the taxi deposits us on Bogyoke Aung San Road, on the southwest corner of the Market by the same name—Yangon’s most famous market. I want to...
Kindred Spirits by Alan Swyer “K now what’s amazing?” Ross said as he and Gelber wolfed down an early morning feast of dumplings and porridge at a dim sum joint in New York’s Chinatown. “It’s like we went to different...
?????? ANSWERS A Cycle of Short-Short Stories Richard Kostelanetz In memory of Novalis [For periodical, print continuously with extra space between entries; if a book, one to a page; wide (Latin?), paginated landscape; so far 94. Resequence to move from cliché...
a time like this after they carried things home and pulled the corn wagon out of the frozen ruts they turned the cows into the pasture and filled the oat bags for horses then went to the house where women were wringing out bloody cloths and emptying the rest down the...
Calcium Phosphate Some choose the wind so they can go all the places their body never went alive. Others choose mixture with cement, as a rock at the ocean’s bottom to be part of the big whole, or crushed into a diamond to be prettier than the sack they were in...
Photo by Adrià Crehuet Cano on Unsplash *** Go Broncos! by Joe Mills M arisa watches Cameron burrow into the team huddle. The kids put their hands towards the center, bow their heads, then, after a moment, whip their arms in the air as they yell,...
Jimmy Pro Found Inspiration At A Now Defunct El Paso Watering Hole by William Crawford Contributing Writer 1430 Myrtle is gone from the city charts, but it still has a warm place in local barflies’ hearts. Jimmy Pro landed up here a decade or so ago....
Poetry: Any Age, Any Place Introduction by Jessica Femiani T here is an awful lot of talk these days about the disconnected lives we lead, that years back students arriving early to class might engage the awkward, and make small talk. Sometimes, they...
Photo by Robert Anasch on Unsplash *** “I will not be bullied…” by Galanty Miller Let’s all take 15 minutes a week to consider the possibility that everything in which we so passionately believe is completely wrong./ I feel like I could...
The Infinite Doctrine of Water by Michael T. Young Series: Terrapin Poetry Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Terrapin Books (April 1, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1947896016 ISBN-13: 978-1947896017 $5.99 Kindle/$12.99 Paperback from AMAZON Review by Emily...
Field Farm by Cynthia McVay T he first time I saw Field Farm it was the dead of winter, snowless and charmless, but even so, something about the soft curves of the land and open space captivated me. As the realtor fumbled for the key to the...
In Hubble’s Shadow by Carol Smallwood Shanti Arts, 2017, Brunswick, Maine 98 pages, $14.95, paperback https://www.amazon.com/ Review by Jennifer L. Dean T he early 90s were exciting and troubling times—the Berlin wall came down, and the Iraq War began. A Gen...
Good Sport by Karen Lethlean Contributing Writer D on’t mean to brag, but I am a Triathlete of some repute. This happened on one of my first races as part of an Australian team, competing overseas in Honolulu World Championship, Olympic distance...
Evan Balkan Photo Quito Panorama *** “Q” by Evan Balkan It’s taken twenty-one mostly miserable hours to get to Quito. A flight delay in Baltimore, a subsequent missed connection in Miami, an hour drive from Marical Sucre Airport and here it is, edging up...
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