Month: April 2026
IT’S SPRING IT’S NO APRIL FOOL BY RALPH MACIOCI
Posted by admin | Apr 8, 2026 | Visual Art | 0 |
FROSTY’S FIRST BUCK BY DR. JOHN A. WILDE
Posted by admin | Apr 8, 2026 | Non-Fiction | 0 |
October 8, 2011, was the coldest opening day of any Illinois Youth Deer Season I’ve hunted. And as a then sixty-five-year-old father of four and grandfather of nine, with all kith and kin living within forty miles of me, I’ve...
Read MoreALL WE HAVE IS OUR SOUL BY JENNIFER GURNEY
as we endeavour to live in a world quickly filling with hate and injustice when each day’s headlines stick in our craw and the present and future look bleaker and bleaker because they are and demonstrations swell while laws are...
Read MoreI MISS LIBRARIES BY JENNIFER GURNEY
I miss libraries you know when it was quiet and you could think versus now when it’s like McDonald’s playland with screaming children and checked-out parents scrolling on their phone instead of reading to their kids what’s weird...
Read MoreTHE PATH STRETCHES OUT BY JENNIFER GURNEY
the path stretches out in front of me and all I need to do is walk solid earth beneath limitless sky above all between is life your teal blue surface from shore to shore to shore mirroring the sky hillside on your shore I...
Read MoreWHAT’S SO HARD BY CYNTHIA FAUST
Posted by admin | Apr 7, 2026 | Non-Fiction | 0 |
The stack of last year’s greeting cards shifted under the clutter of sales receipts and bank statements and slid toward the edge of Jane’s desk. Reflexively her right arm swept forward to catch the pile of papers as it had done...
Read MoreHOME BY LAUREN WIENER
Drip, drip, drip the sound of waste our natural resources depleting have we squandered our thoughts of endlessness we have taken this little blue globe for granted not giving ensuring imploring her due process only our own she...
Read MoreLATELY BY LAUREN WIENER
Loose cannons flood the ether barrage with no breaths unraveling of wayward threads tugging with uncertainty manifested mayhem no one at the helm rudderless misaligned priorities misguided notions perpetuates free wheeling...
Read MoreWINTERS’ RIGHT BY LAUREN WIENER
Dankness hangs in a heaviness that foreshadows our ivory sojourn rotund menacing figures intending to bruise our fragile interiors her chill pierces our knowingness weaving her imposing intentions blanketing us with numbing...
Read MoreSTATE OF MIND BY LAUREN WIENER
Talk talk talk and talk some more what policy coherence whereabouts meanderings misheard what is demonstrably true lies flow with abandon underbelly of distraction unable to make the deal of the century fragmented scraps of...
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