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Month: September 2024

poetry

Annie Charlat – ‘Before the Banquet’

September 29, 2024September 29, 2024 admin 1 min read

  Vashti knew the navy couch. People call her difficult; they don’t know she waited all her life to say no. A dance with destiny […]

poetry

Jacqueline Jules – ‘Forty-Four Perfect Candles’

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 admin 1 min read

  This small blue box,  four inches tall,  holds forty-four candles.   Exactly enough for eight nights provided one or more are not broken, misshapen,  […]

non-fiction

Lisa Grunberger – An Excerpt from ‘The Happy Adoptee’

September 17, 2024September 17, 2024 admin 36 mins read

1. Orphan Long Island, 1998 During the summer of 1998, two major things happened that shaped my decision to find grandparents for Rachel:  during that summer […]

non-fiction

Rachel Howe – ‘My JAP Journey’

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 admin 12 mins read

Don’t be a JAP. That was the clear message I had been given my entire childhood. It seemed like the most important thing NOT to […]

fiction

Mark Russ – ‘The Ghost of Kyiv’

September 1, 2024September 1, 2024 admin 12 mins read

  Pavel shot up from his knees, barely having time to make the sign of the cross, when he heard the cruise missile strike his […]