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...
CLIMBING CROAGH PATRICK – By Ellie White
CLIMBING CROAGH PATRICKBy Ellie White “Fortune Assists the Brave” – a Scottish battle cryAbout halfway up the mountain, the air feels thinner. If this were another day, on another trip, it might be okay to...
SHATTERED AT FIVE – By L. B. Boe
SHATTERED AT FIVEBy L.B. Boe
Uncle Mike built an apartment for us in his basement where the four of us—Mom, my brother and sister, and I—lived while Daddy was in Vietnam. It was a real...
SOME THOUGHTS ON TRAVEL – By Royce Adams
SOME THOUGHTS ON TRAVELBy Royce Adams
The other evening, my wife suggested we should travel to Japan based on kudos from friends who had just visited. Usually, when my wife suggests we should travel somewhere,...
SONOGRAM IN MEDIA RES – By Carla Arellano
SONOGRAM IN MEDIAS RESBy Carla E. Arellano
Today, I said the words, “My abortion…” and I stopped. They tumbled out of my heart and fell out of my lips. I was on a phone call...
SAN BERNARDINO – By Taylor Hall
SAN BERNARDINOBy Taylor Hall
I ask if she minds if I kiss her, and she says she doesn’t. She never minds, big eyes always fixed on the sky, or out a window. Big mouth always...
THE COUNTRY OF THE PAST – By Michelle Cacho-Negrete
COUNTRY OF THE PASTBy Michelle Cacho-Negrete
My husband Kevin and I drift along the Finnish-Russian border as though suspended on the edge of a dream, my dream of Russia, or perhaps my mother’s or grandparents’...
FALLING FROM GRACE – By Ron McFarland
FALLINGS FROM GRACEBy Ron McFarland
The little priest came from Ghana and had retired but remained active at Grace Episcopal in Oak Park, an upscale Chicago suburb where the Hemingway family had worshipped upon occasion....
HYPERION – By Thomas N. Hackney
HYPERIONBy Thomas N. Hackney
According to Drake’s equation, there should be something like 10,000 alien civilizations in theMilky Way galaxy. Okay, the galaxy is a big place but 10,000 civilizations is quite a few. Wherethe...