Elvis Has Left the Building
This artwork uses layers of collage and mixed media to portray memory, drawing on city life, poetry, art history, and other urban influences.
Diversity Dance
Celebrating the differences. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas.
Birdhouse in the Birches
A quiet scene from the Reiffel Bird Sanctuary on the Fraser River Estuary, near Vancouver, B.C.
In cemento veritas
Paintings and sculptures.
Garcia Lorca
Drawing of Garcia Lorca.
Ribbon
White paper clay sculptures, various designs.
A vein of gold in Paris
Using a tilt-shift lens and post-processing for the colors, I created this photo of a Paris street that looks like a vein of gold.
Clay Sculptures
Assorted paper white clay sculptures.
Floral Ecstacy
After the long, cold, dark winters I find the spring so invigorating. I finally started photographing budding flowers and green city views again.
Hitler Clone (60)
There are 88 Hitler clones in total, every clone being the source material for the subsequent one.
Dock of the Bay
Stunning boat and dock photography.
Unleavened Flatbread
The best writing advice I have ever received.
Melville’s Bartleby and Camus’ Absurdism
A close reading of both Bartleby and The Stranger highlights the striking similarities in imagery, symbolism, and theme between the two works.
Defying Psychoanalysis in Djuna Barnes’ To the Dogs and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night
To the Dogs and Tender Is the Night are two works that strive to challenge Freudian notions on Psychoanalytic methods and gender theories.
Edie on the Green Screen: Laying Down the Armor of the Invulnerable It-Girl
This review looks at Beth Lisick’s forthcoming novel and engages with how Lisick’s title character will speak to the aging non-conformist.
Review of The Group of Seven Reimagined
Editor Karen Schauber has put together a fascinating collection of literary stories, all of which were inspired by famous, historic Canadian paintings.
A review of Heather McQuillan’s Where Oceans Meet
Where Oceans Meet is a book of flash fiction stories that read like poetry.
A review of On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
Review of Ocean Vuong’s debut novel On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous
Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in utero
This article is respectfully dedicated to my friend Paul Clements (1964-2017), another good Doctor sorely missed.
Review of Sandra Arnold’s Soul Etchings
I first met Sandra Arnold through a Facebook group, and we became friends, reading each other’s stories and never having met in person.
Author Eva Wong Nava
I would like to introduce Eva Wong Nava, a very talented writer, contributor to Literary Heist, and novelist.
Review of Flare Up!
Flare Up! Written by: Gary Beck
Review by: Rhonda McClam
A Getaway from the Everyday
A young couple meet for their commute home on the Staten Island Ferry and discuss if joining the rat race and living an unfulfilling…
Rideshare
A privileged college student is cast into the world of the homeless where he learns valuable life lessons from the “sages” of the streets.
Base Jumpers
This piece is quick, profound and interesting fiction.
Almost Perfect
A happy man struggles to ask for a wish from a Genie.
Zula
A short fairy tale creation for the Choctaw, using the plot elements from the famous Cinderella story.
Stars above Detroit
Togetherness, love, and hope flourish within an abandoned neighborhood.
Two-Face
In this vignette, the teen discovers his courage and overcomes his life-long shame when he plunges off a quarry ledge to save his chief tormentor
Papa Razzi
Papa Razzi takes my photo; he takes so much more than a photo.
Insert Family
The frustrations of shopping for the perfect family.
Whilst on Vacation.
A story about a young couple on vacation who discover that the world is not as nice as they thought.
The Golden State
Generations collide, minds are open, and stereotypes are vanquished, inside the crossroads of The Golden State.
making it palatable
Coffee as a metaphor for life.
I Never Knew Her
For Anne Sexton.
What things was all important
A poem about extinction.
Hands in the River
A poem about blood and darkness.
What I call poetry
A poem about poetry
Abscission In Winter
The form of an act of nature, describes how we fade away from each other.
Carousel
Wow. One drink and suddenly
the weight is off you.
Chants, Prayers, Foster
The work is inexplicable.
Taking the Long Way Home
Taking the Long Way Home chronicles her mother’s life and long fall into dementia.
Apple of My Eye
A narrative persona poem of young love and human callousness.
The Cleaning Lady
A poem about life on hands and knees