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.
Virtual Detroit
Photography from around Detroit.
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
Does Your Horse Have A Saddle?
Why Writing Groups Work
Jumping Stanley Bridge
Jumping off the Stanley Bridge in to the bay, Stanley Bridge, Prince Edward Island.
Nick Hornby: On using Spotify for fuel, Jigsaws, and more
Nick Hornby, best known for his memoir Fever Pitch and his novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films.
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.
Promises, Hearts, & Other Breakable Items
“I’ll run errands after the meeting,” Sybil said, as she stood in the kitchen doorway,“ so I’ll see you this afternoon.”
Dark and Damp
A tree grows in a woman’s house and she struggles to get it outside.
Mr. Flipper’s Mistress
They have all been gathered. It is time to name a killer or two. The only problem is the killer has already been named or has she?
Thrift Store
In the tradition of “Twilight Zone,” we read about Tony the trucker and his quest to get home in time for Christmas.
Angels of Tiburon
History provides a pathway to cultural self discovery in San Francisco Bay.
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
Impressions of Her Landscape Through an Urban Graveyard
To a vilified outcast who ricocheted into self-destruction.
The Ordinary Second
Happens when you least expect it.
The distracted driver blabbing on his phone
cheap vacation
A poem about a cheap vacation.
Woman in Phone Booth
Woman in Phone Booth riffs, like an extended sonnet, on an imagined photograph.
One Final Blaze
In all this red gore, suffering
and servitude oozing across
2020 Night Vision
Tyranny Tastes Terror.
Reactionary Roars Resound
The Heart’s Exhaustion
Stripped of all the colors that create me,
Bare as the bones beneath my skin
The Choice
This poem hopes to combine compression with metaphors that achieve a resonance so as to offer the reader a trip into the indefinite.