by BlogEditor | Jul 6, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
DOGGED by Marty Kingsbury FollowFollowFollow In my 71 years of life, I’ve known lots of pain: scrapes and stitches and broken bones. Pinched sciatica. Bone spurs. Headaches that drum my skull. But this one was different. This one was hard to figure out. It started on...
by BlogEditor | Jun 26, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Jesus Is Delicious by Monica J. Casper FollowFollowFollow I was small when my mom and my sister, and I left a drafty old house in coal country for Chicago. We had tickets to Bozo’s Circus, which we’d only ever seen on TV. My dad had let us make the six-hour journey...
by BlogEditor | Jun 21, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Lipstick by Norma Schafer FollowFollowFollow The tube is gold and metallic blue, scratched, tarnished, and well-worn. The removeable gold top has ridges with the raised edges now silvery, signs of its aging. I can still faintly read Estee Lauder stamped on the...
by BlogEditor | Jun 14, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Dinner for Two Lovely People by Tracy Harris FollowFollowFollow You can tell when a binge is about to happen. Just as the sky darkens and the air grows thick with moisture before a thunderstorm, a binge starts with warning signs. Unlike a thunderstorm, however, a...
by BlogEditor | Jun 7, 2023 | Creative Nonfiction
Glimpses by Anne E. Beall FollowFollowFollow A few months ago, I looked up and realized you were walking along the sidewalk in front of me. You walked as if you weren’t sure of yourself—not convinced you had a solid place on this earth. Your backpack had...
by BlogEditor | May 31, 2023 | Book Reviews
Contrapasso by Alexandra Fössinger FollowFollowFollow Contrapasso (poetry)by Alexandra Fössinger 2022 by Cephalopress Ltd13$USD/paperback plus shipping from Amazon978-1-8382206-2-4 Book Review by Anna Cavouras Italian poetess Alexandra Fössinger brings her perceptive...
