THE PASSION by Tracy Mann

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THE PASSION Jesus is condemned to death The news came to me from Brazil in the late 1970s.  The transparent airmail envelope, striped in green and yellow, contained a premonition of a death.  Recently returned from...

THE SAD, IRONIC FATE OF SULLIVAN BALLOU by Frank Emerson

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THE SAD, IRONIC FATE OF SULLIVAN BALLOU Of all the letters associated with the American Civil War, two stand out as arguably the most beautiful and touching – certainly the best known. Abraham Lincoln's poignant,...

SHORT CIRCUIT by Robert Burns

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Short Circuit Robert Burns The light extinguished, yet the kinetic shock surged to my feet. The amplitude waxed, like whipped rope, each stronger than the last. I rubbed my feet against the sheet, back and forth,...

BASEBALLS by Allen Long

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Baseballs I’m sixty-three and work several days a week as an assistant hospital nurse in the San Francisco Bay Area.  On my days off, I walk my beloved golden retriever, Ruby, two miles every morning...