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in cemento veritas

in cemento veritas

Mario Loprete March 20, 2022 1

Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

An Apology for M.Phil.

An Apology for M.Phil.

The Exiled Shore

The Exiled Shore

The Days After

The Days After

Art
in cemento veritas

in cemento veritas

Mario Loprete March 20, 2022 1

Clothes that survived covid 19, very similar to what survived after the 2,000-year-old catastrophic eruption of Pompeii.

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Jellyfish and Microbeads

Jellyfish and Microbeads

Maureen C. Berry December 20, 2021 0

By pairing the natural with the unnatural, I create a subtle awareness of the plastic pollution crisis. Mixed media watercolor on paper.

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Peppers for a Stew

Peppers for a Stew

Abby Ripley December 20, 2021 0

This is a watercolor of three peppers in orange, yellow, and red being cut up to be put in a meat stew with other vegetables.

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Covidscapes

Covidscapes

Cynthia Yatchman September 20, 2021 0

These images were done during our Covid isolation.

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Time

Time

Gino Parisi June 20, 2021 0

Time is inspired by the emotions of time. The now is where time does not exist.

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A Spring Collection

A Spring Collection

RC deWinter March 20, 2021 0

A collection of artwork with Spring in mind.

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3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy

3 Untitled Portraits of Young Men On the Verge Of Infamy

Jeremy Szuder December 21, 2020 0

The illustrations are done with ink on paper and all measuring @ 5″X7″.

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Elvis Has Left the Building

Elvis Has Left the Building

Lorette C. Luzajic March 20, 2020 0

This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.

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Diversity Dance

Diversity Dance

Jenn Ashton December 20, 2019 0

Celebrating the differences. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas.

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Birdhouse in the Birches

Birdhouse in the Birches

Cheryl Bezuidenhout September 20, 2019 0

A quiet scene from the Reiffel Bird Sanctuary on the Fraser River Estuary, near Vancouver, B.C.

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In cemento veritas

In cemento veritas

Mario Loprete June 20, 2019 0

Paintings and sculptures.

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Garcia Lorca

Garcia Lorca

James Eret March 20, 2019 0

Drawing of Garcia Lorca.

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Ribbon

Ribbon

Shelley Sarna December 20, 2018 0

White paper clay sculptures, various designs.

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Articles
Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

Don’t Miss Your Connection: an Interview with Best-Selling Author Jonathan Evison  

Shaun McMichael March 20, 2022 0

An interview with Best-Selling Novelist Jonathan Evison about his new book, Small World (2022).

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An Apology for M.Phil.

An Apology for M.Phil.

Ashish Dwivedi March 20, 2022 0

A globally-acknowledged degree, of respected stature and ancient origins, does not find a place in the popular imagination.

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Quirks and Quiddities

Quirks and Quiddities

Mehreen Ahmed December 20, 2021 0

All about the dangers of soil erosion in Bangladesh, the fate of farmers, and what is being done to prevent it.

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Lost in the Fog

Lost in the Fog

Ed Staskus December 20, 2021 0

It is about the unholy creation, existence, liberation, and legacy of the Nazi death camps as documented by “Night and Fog.”

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Living is also about Learning to Die

Living is also about Learning to Die

Prakash Kona December 20, 2021 0

Learning to die is the beginning of living.

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An ARTistic Ride

An ARTistic Ride

Lorraine Morales September 20, 2021 0

From Stanley Park and Yaletown, to Granville Island and False Creek, I share eight of my favorites over the years.

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On Poetics (and matters of similar tedium)

On Poetics (and matters of similar tedium)

Joel Schueler September 20, 2021 0

A look at the current literary scene as someone sees it (mainly).

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Did Frodo Make it to Mordor or Not?

Did Frodo Make it to Mordor or Not?

Rex Bowman June 20, 2021 1

One Courageous Translator Kept Readers in the Soviet Union Waiting Years to Find out

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Book Review – The Hill by Ali Bryan

Book Review – The Hill by Ali Bryan

Heidi Klaassen June 20, 2021 0

A book review of Ali Bryan’s new novel, The Hill.

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The Pros and Cons of Ghostwriting

The Pros and Cons of Ghostwriting

Sudakshina Bhattacharjee June 20, 2021 0

There are pros and cons to ghostwriting, which this article aims to elaborate on.

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The Making of a Martyr: George Floyd & the Cycle of History

The Making of a Martyr: George Floyd & the Cycle of History

Ashish Dwivedi March 20, 2021 0

Locations and contexts of sub-human brutalities.

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Reclaiming Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Reclaiming Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Phyllis Zimbler Miller March 20, 2021 0

The adaptation and reclaiming of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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Something Remains

Something Remains

Rosa Arlotto March 20, 2021 0

When inspiration is gone something remains, writing.

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Short Stories
The Exiled Shore

The Exiled Shore

Mike Lee March 20, 2022 0

A high functionary in a dictatorship is sent into exile, facing an uncertain, yet strangely comfortable future.

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The Days After

The Days After

Sewell Thompson March 20, 2022 0

Eddie has left prison, but the prison hasn’t left him.

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The Devil Made Us Do It…  

The Devil Made Us Do It…  

Don Louis Robishaw March 20, 2022 0

Once upon a time two lady pirates set sail in the South China Sea in search of treasures hidden by the Japanese during WWII.

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Latchkey Girl

Latchkey Girl

Jonathan Ferrini March 20, 2022 0

A love affair between mathematics and cinema is created by a beautiful, young heart!

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Crying

Crying

Alan Brickman December 20, 2021 4

The central character’s grief following the death of his wife is made more complicated by her deathbed confession of marital infidelity.

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The Carnival

The Carnival

Christy Hoots December 20, 2021 0

Rowan McArthur has always wanted to run his own carnival to delight and frighten his small village. He will give anything to have it.

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Los Imperiales

Los Imperiales

Jonathan Ferrini December 20, 2021 0

A family trust shields a tiny town from the ‘winds of change’.

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My Call

My Call

Ryan Brinkhurst December 20, 2021 0

My Call is about a predator who uses a phone call to terrify and capture a victim.

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It Can Wait

It Can Wait

Daniel Mainwaring September 20, 2021 1

London. May, 1916. Harry Strange makes a momentous decision. He fears his wife’s reaction, but in his angst, he overlooks an important occasion.

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One Drop

One Drop

Justin Robinette September 20, 2021 0

Conner cheats on his wife on gay sex apps, but he doesn’t believe he’s gay.

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Nine Lives

Nine Lives

Niles Reddick September 20, 2021 0

Cats don’t have nine lives any more than humans do.

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It took an old vegetable seller…

It took an old vegetable seller…

Shashi Kadapa June 20, 2021 0

Coming to terms that being rich and well off does not mean that you are a human being.

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Sand and Ash

Sand and Ash

Jonathan Ferrini June 20, 2021 1

Desert winds whip up memories of unrequited love and a reunion for a young woman.

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Poetry
Strife is a songbird

Strife is a songbird

John Sieber March 20, 2022 0

A dystopian state of mind, in which the US, amidst a current divide in political and cultural values, throws itself into another civil war.

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Ceremonies of Innocence

Ceremonies of Innocence

Timea Deinhardt March 20, 2022 0

A wistful nostalgic sonnet.

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A Poet Is Born

A Poet Is Born

Nolo Segundo March 20, 2022 0

A very short poem hinting at the mystery of creating.

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Certain Things

Certain Things

Jyoti Nair March 20, 2022 0

Wilted spaces of my memories, which remained fettered, and then just one day, those memories began to screech through my temples.

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The Fourth One

The Fourth One

Alexey Tarasov March 20, 2022 0

The first one said, “You should agree, bro. We need one more man in the crew, to finish the project tomorrow.”

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The Others

The Others

Fikile Dlamini March 20, 2022 3

How we face challenges in life but come through to the other side, yet there are others just like us who weren’t so lucky.

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I, THE KING.

I, THE KING.

Adam Hadar March 20, 2022 0

His broken hands reaching towards coins that rattle weakly inside the plastic change jar he keeps in the center console.

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Lion tamer

Lion tamer

Colin Ian Jeffery March 20, 2022 0

Great Lionel was a lion tamer, bold and true star of circus, daredevil of sawdust ring Bravery second to none, hero renowned.

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Poets Die (V2)

Poets Die (V2)

Michael Lee Johnson March 20, 2022 0

Why do poets die; linger in youth addicted to death.

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The New Highway Bypasses Centerville

The New Highway Bypasses Centerville

John Grey March 20, 2022 0

Small towns lose contact with the highway.

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Memories

Memories

Lynn White December 20, 2021 0

A poem about the things we remember and those we forget.

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Protection or Suffocation

Protection or Suffocation

Sultana Raza December 20, 2021 0

Musings on choices, metaphorical or philosophical; deciding between extremes.

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Learning to Forgive

Learning to Forgive

Ann Christine Tabaka December 20, 2021 6

“Learning to Forgive” is a poem about learning to forgive an abusive father.

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