By Janesays Roxanne drinks coffee every day, sometimes two or three cups. She cannot function without the morning cup. Coffee with milk, but no sugar. It is so hard to find a really good cup of coffee and she feels lucky that she has one, but she really likes and wants it sometimes with sugar. [...]
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Visions of a City
by Rich Lessing High above the city a seagull floats; it looks down upon the expanses of green and gray, of blue water and black top. The wind carries it over citadels of human needs and desires, mountains of man’s creation, valleys of despair, oftentimes obscured by the fog of an ocean’s breath. Catching a [...]
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All over this…..
By Ezra Spurlock My right hand, gripped firmly, clenched onto lockets of hair. My left arm, bent at the elbow, lying across my face. A defensive mechanism, really. Protection, from these blows, balled fists, landing, directly, on and about, the sides of my head. Left side, right side. I begin to fade. My right hand, [...]
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Winter
Essays, Fiction, Stories by Nancy Tatum
By Nan Tatum Well, it’s here, the dreaded ‘flu. Three confirmed cases locally, which isn’t too bad. Hear tell there are three different strains but “they are all covered by the current vaccine.” Yeah, when oinkers fly. Haven’t had the ‘flu in this house and hoping it will pass us by. I wonder if, like [...]
Wrong-Doings with Christian Rock Artists
By Jeremy Glass It is 11:20 P.M. I am standing at the Riverside T stop awaiting the arrival of the D line to take me back to Suffolk University so I can get to bed. I look around, taking in all the information around me. It’s cold, I can see my breath, older man sitting [...]
A Man’s Parting
By David Hale The wilderness had always been a means of escape for John. The feeling of getting back to nature and away from the industrial grip of Houston, Texas, was a welcome relief. The oil refining business had been good to John and he was scheduled for retirement soon. He was ready to leave [...]
Your Daddy Can’t Dance, and Your Mamma Can’t Rock and Roll
by Ileana Dragutsa You play the piano and your dog wags his tail like a metronome; in rhythm to, is it Chopin’s Polanaise? or simply, Chopstix? Perhaps a little “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy?” I am sadly envious. Would that I could, but I won’t because I can’t. I was not allowed to learn a musical [...]
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Recreation
By Katie Manderfield The first time was in the back seat of Goon’s car. I had never smelled anything like it. It was a good smell, but not as good as everyone said. It smelled like dead bugs and stale perfume. Me and Jess sat in back, trying to converse with frantic eyes and subdued [...]
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The Waiter and the Girl
By Adam Moorad It was early and no one had arrived at the café besides the young girl who stood in the sun next to the railing of the wooden deck. The neighborhood is hot at night but in the morning the cool dew collects and puddles in the warped planks of wood laid flat [...]
Counting Crows
By Kat Rosa One for sorrow Two for joy Three for girls Four for boys Five for silver Six for gold Seven for a secret Never to be told “What does it mean?” “What? The beginning? Oh, I don’t know. It’s prophecy, right?” “What?” “You know, like fortune telling. What we can expect from life. [...]
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