Nonfiction

THE PHILOSOPHY OF IRONY IN GREEK CULTUREby Dimitra Tsourou    This article stems from my dissatisfaction with the available interpretations of irony in Greek culture. A further difficulty in understanding “Greek irony” results from the inability...

HE LOVES ME. HE LOVES ME NOTBy Michele Sprague Twenty years ago I couldn’t get enough of him. We talked for hours and never ran out of things to say. We greeted each other with...

KINDERWHOREby Deanne M. Lehman(an excerpt) I was born into a world of darkness and my mother was the moon. Cold and unsmiling, she stood illuminated by her man of the moment, many faces changing throughout...

THE EIGHTIESBy Betty J. Sayles My son was a career Air Force man and while visiting me in northern Wisconsin, he saw 80 acres of woods, swamp and beaver dam that he loved on sight...

THE HOWL OF AN AMERICAN PSYCHO: An Introspection into the Destructive Americaby Vanya Suchan To raise the notion that the human being reaches for the glamorized “American dream”, but remains crushed in her struggle and...

    My grandfather wanted to be a cantor, but that never came to pass.  My mother had a rich voice and sang in several groups.  But a few years before she died, she confessed that...

UNIFORMSby Nancy Gendimenico The summer between junior and senior years of high school, I worked at a state home for people with special needs. My job came through a ‘70s era government program that helped...

ON SIDEKICKSby Robert Wexelblatt Yesterday, I looked through an old photo album, the sort of thing you do once a decade or so.  The album is covered in cracked brown leather; the black-and-white snapshots have...

DELIVERIESby Carol Childers Crawford A week before Christmas I stood in my Georgia driveway in a thin sweater, holding an oversized, fleece-lined, water repellent coat. I wrestled it into the back of my car while...

TOY GUN AND VIDEO GAME PLAYby Mary Bonina One of my son Gianni’s favorite toys when he was a toddler and preschooler was a small, plastic “workbench” and drill. It was compact, so he could...