I COULD ONLY HEAR HER SILENCE By Juanita Tovar Mutis
HOLD HER ONCE AGAINby Juanita Tovar IIt’s Saturday. Sábado. In the AM. The sky is a solid shade of light blue, unclouded and pristine. Its pastel hues are reflected on Juanita’s red sunglasses as she...
MYSTERIES OF ENGLISH CLASS: GANESH By Gregg Williard
MYSTERIES OF ENGLISH CLASS: GANESHBy Gregg Williard Today’s ESL class is a YouTube video of “How Ganesh Got an Elephant Head.” There are dozens of versions of the story from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and other...
THE CHIPPED-TOOTHED HEART By LaDonna Friesen
THE CHIPPED-TOOTHED HEARTBy LaDonna Friesen I pushed a button, and the rear van door beeped like a pulse. It felt hot enough inside it to be a heart. I loaded a couple cloth bags of...
NACHES By Jeffrey Loeb
NACHESBy Jeffrey Loeb West of the city the river road beckoned, all soft oak-leaves and ripening corn. It struck me as a place for reflection, so on impulse I cut north off the Interstate, over...
GOING HUNTING By Cynthia Close
GOING HUNTINGBy Cynthia Close
We were driving from Boston to my parent’s home in New Jersey. Pete had the rifle in the back of the van. It was Thanksgiving and deer season in Jersey. My...
A PISS ON THE CHEEK By Walker Thomas
A PISS ON THE CHEEKBy Walker Thomas My escape took me as far as Tucson, where I ditched the car and volunteered for the draft. I bussed to El Paso for basic training at Fort...
KILLINGS AND ABDUCTION By Tamas Dobozy
KILLINGS AND ABDUCTIONBy Tamas Dobozy
The summer of 1981 was the summer of murdered children.The bodies had been turning up for a year in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, mainly the Vancouver area. Places...
MEDIOCRE EXISTENTIALIST By Rebecca Kirschbaum
MEDIOCRE EXISTENCIALISTBy Rebecca Kirschbaum
You slurred about how you loved yourself while you hung from a balcony, two stories in the air, staring at the frozen ground beneath you.It was a night drenched in booze,...
MEDIEVAL SURGERY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUM By Dr. Raymond Fenech
MEDIEVAL SURGERY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUMBy Dr. Raymond Fenech
Who isn’t overawed by the progress that medicine has made in this third millennium? Yet few people know that basically all that we...