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...
THE BUS RIDE by Susan McCartney
Into Africa I fly on a one-way ticket. Journey through fourteen countries in twenty-two months on local transportation. A woman without advantage of youth or money. Learning. Resting. Changing. The journey has many pieces....
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,...
SOME OF THE OLDEST KNOWN SURVIVING BOOKS
SOME OF THE OLDEST KNOWN SURVIVING BOOKSWe have tried to put together what we hope is an interesting range of some of the oldest surviving books in the world. Here are the oldest surviving...
TWO STORIES OF YOUTH By Ian Bishop
TWO STORIES OF YOUTHby Ian Bishop
I hated the dinning room, detested the kitchen. Other rooms, and a couple of short corridors, were places I became lost. Every minute in the house seemed an age...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY – By Patrick Hahn
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE CHAPTERSBy Patrick D Hahn Chapter OneThis story begins many years ago, back when I was still almost-young, after I had finished with graduate school – or, graduate school had finished with me...
WHEN YOU’RE AGORAPHOBIC AND YOUR HUSBAND GETS CANCER by Suellen Meyers
When You’re Agoraphobic and Your Husband Gets Cancer
Seated on a cold concrete bench outside Saint Rose Hospital, I saw my brother-in-law and his new girlfriend coming up the walkway from the parking lot. “I...
THE RACIST INSIDE US, AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE by Bill Portela
The Racist Inside Us, An Evolutionary Perspective
THE RACIST INSIDE US:
AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
By Bill Portella
Out of three-billion sequenced DNA codes in the human genome, chimpanzees share 99% of our hieroglyphs letter for letter. Would eyebrows...
NO MORE TEARS by Kristin Gunner
“I don’t want any tears.”
My Papaw occasionally talked about his funeral, even before we knew he’d be gone soon. I promised him I wouldn’t cry when that day came, but I broke that promise....
WHETHER THE PATRIARCHY by Joanna Kadish
Whether the Patriarchy
Sarah and her father, Brian, were watching “The Trouble with Tribbles” tribbles being little furry creatures that procreate like crazy and overwhelm the ship, when Paul came by, a slender boy with...