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Shade Tree Diplomacy

March 20, 2025March 18, 2025Mitchell Toews 0

Life is conflict. While we think we know how we’d act as we watch someone else in a dispute, when it’s us we may not be quite so sure.

The Benefit of a Bad Beginning

March 20, 2025March 18, 2025Kim Farleigh 1

A bad start in life gives the good things that finally come a rare preciousness.

To M.

March 20, 2025March 15, 2025Gabriella Garofalo 0

Maybe these words are my Ariadne’s thread whenever I lose my bearings in that absurd maze they unwisely call life.

An Inconvenient Truth

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Mary Walsh Foley 0

A mother’s reaction to her daughter’s unplanned pregnancy.

Jack in the Box

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Frank J. Albert 0

Do we ever really know our parents, or do we only think we do? Can an adult have a “coming of age” experience?

Pale Almond Blossoms

September 20, 2024December 20, 2024Bobbi Sinha-Morey 0

Inspiration drawn from the stuff of life.

Oh Bobby, Why Didn’t You Look?

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Ed Walsh 0

The accidental death of a child and the impact upon his family and his father’s lover.

malaise

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Scott Taylor 0

what is this strange feeling in me,
that gnaws on my marrow.

Anchors and Angels

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Scott Outlar 1

How the wonders of nature and life can sometimes be lost in translation or even during the attempt to describe them at all.

The Lives of Jellyfish

June 20, 2024September 20, 2024Benjamin Haupt 0

I can’t stop thinking about jellyfish. I can’t stop thinking.

On Becoming a Centenarian

March 20, 2024June 20, 2024Bunny Moon 0

A newly-minted centenarian expresses her gratitude for her life.

the sacrificing poet

December 20, 2023March 20, 2024Paul Butterfield Jnr 0

A poet who sacrifices his own life for his own truth while the ones he loves watch on.

The Frightful Fall

September 20, 2023December 20, 2023Mark Tulin 0

A healthcare aid panics when his client falls through the Hoyer Lift and to the floor.

Reflection

September 20, 2023December 20, 2023Craig Kirchner 0

Reflection on writing and mortality.

Reflections at Age Ninety-nine

September 20, 2023December 20, 2023Bunny Moon 0

Bunny Moon reflects on her life as she approaches her 100th birthday.

Booked to Heaven

September 20, 2023December 20, 2023Duane Anderson 0

I wrote this after my mother told her three sons that she was ready to leave this earth after living to the age of 101.

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