Bide – by Steven Ray Smith
Bide The meaning of life is death. The meaning of Christianity is life after death. The profusion of words is to bide time. Steven Ray Smith
Review of “The Sarah Book” by Scott McClanahan
Falling into The Sarah Book A strange, compelling self-reflection, The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan, entices with its sweet, experimental prose. McClanahan creates characters from their emotions, normal human emotions, sometimes exaggerated and often funny – like laughing on a …
MY COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT – by John Grey
My older brother would tag along after my sadness. He’d watch me stuff my head in the pillow, scratch at the blankets, squeeze the sheets together like the pimple on my chin. “What have you got to complain about,” was his favorite saying. I’d take a swipe at him. It was house money. At best, […]
3 senryu – by Helen Buckingham
the tension around my tension tension full moon beyond good and evil MLK Day the killing continues
Becoming Jewish – by John C. Mannone
After daddy died, I watched momma slowly convert from Sicilian Catholic to Baltimore Jew when she married Mr. David Morris. I met him long before momma did, at a local pool hall where he was a ball-racker, and bald, like I am now, and he had piercing eyes. I had no idea he would become my father. […]
The Pebble – by Rebecca Harrison
Sarah found the pebble on the beach. It was the colour of shaken clouds. She put it in her pocket, took it home, settled it on her bedside table, and went to sleep. In the morning, the pebble had grown – it filled her hands. It was as cool as wind shadows. She held it […]