BERNIE, DOROTHY, AND CATHERINE by Mary Jane White
Bernie, Dorothy and Catherine
Methodically then, not only each night, as Ruffin slept or not, but also during the seven hours of his first day at school, throughout the remainder of August and early September,...
THE DOMESTIC SIDE OF IMPERIALISM by Mariana Graciano
The Domestic Side of Imperialism:
An Argentine Mother Raising Black Kids during the Presidential Transition in the US
By Mariana Graciano
Fantasmas
The night before the election my 3 –almost 4– year old son, Camilo, woke up with...
A MOTHER’S SIGH By Susan Bloch
A MOTHER’S SIGHby Susan Bloch
In a Congolese village, it is dark. Smoke dribbles up and up, blemishing the light from the sickle moon. Thatched roofs have collapsed. Shrapnel pockmarks dot blackened mud walls. There...
BOBBY CRAWFORD by John L. Stanizzi
BOBBY CRAWFORD -- Eigth Grade – St. Mary’s School – 1962-63 – Sister Patricia Elizabeth
I know I’ve mentioned this to you before, but I think before I get into any details about this...
EATING SALAD WITH A SPOON by Marisa Mangani
Eating Salad with a Spoon
You’re a gorgeous bride at forty-six. Your third marriage, the one you never thought you’d never do, suits you. And your husband-to-be, ten years older, handsome in his cute, little...
FUTURE, PAST, PRESENT, AND ALL OF THE DAYS OF INFAMY AND GRACE IN-BETWEEN by...
Future, Past, Present
And All of the Days of Infamy and Grace In-between
One night in 2002
“Mom, do you ever wonder what the future is gonna look like?”
I don’t know if it was the water’s soothing...
LIVING IN THE EYE OF THE STORM by Wendy A. Miller
Wearing an oversized floral top, you sit on an exam table, swinging your legs off the end when the doctor enters the room. She greets you and then probes your left breast. Her two...
WEST by Pete Warzel
West
West is the dream where the light ends. It is the place of redemption, an earth torsioned and twisted in sworls and declines that dead end or lead infinitely to the last light. It...
THE PASSION by Tracy Mann
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...
FEAR OF REJECTION CAN DROWN by Nathan Sweem
An artist's ability to maneuver waves of rejection often determines the fate of her career. Sooner or later, she finds that not everyone shares her intense love for her artwork. No matter how painful,...