TWO SUMMERS By Rachel Cavell
TWO SUMMERSby Rachel Cavell
It wasn’t fully explainable, the fog of sadness clouding the morning last summer when Integral Tree and Landscaping came to chop down the tree that had lived alongside our house for...
THE LANDLADY By Robert Steward
THE LANDLADYby Robert Steward Paris, France 2001“I like your clothes,” I said, before taking a sip of my café au lait.“Thank you, Robert.” My landlady touched her headscarf. “I make them myself.”Her silk floral caftan hung...
THE SMALL GIRL By Patrick Hahn
THE SMALL GIRLby Patrick Hahn
I’m lying on the sofa in my bungalow, reading the same issue of Discover magazine for the twenty-ninth time. They don’t have much in the way of printed matter in this country,...
PAU HANA TIME By Kirby Michael Wright By Dr. Raymond Fenech
PAU HANA TIMEby Kirby Michael Wright
IT WAS SATURDAY MORNING at the Moloka’i Ranch. The rooster light broke in through the bedroom window at the bungalow. Chipper Gilman was snoring under the quilt. Julia Wright...
ON FREEDOM – MAN’S EVERLASTING ILLUSION
ON FREEDOM – MAN’S EVERLASTING ILLUSIONby Raymond Fenech
You can’t say that you’re advancing freedom when you use free thought to destroy free will. The determinists come to bind, not to lose. (G. K. Chesterton)
Truth...
THE MESSAGE FROM THE CROCHETED DRESS By Maggie Gleason
THE MESSAGE FROM THE CROCHETED DRESSby Maggie Gleason
I had been in San Cristobal de las Casas before. It’s a town with rectangular channels of short, rainbow colored buildings and cobble stone streets located in...
LOST TIME: A ROAD TRIP JOURNAL By Jordan King
LOST TIME: A ROAD TRIP JOURNALby Jordan King May 19, 2016We had planned for ninety days. Thirty to sell and sixty to close. If it went to plan we’d be ready right when our new...
JOY By Allen Long
JOYby Allen Long In December 2016 in the San Francisco Bay area, I drove to my orthopedic surgeon’s office in considerable pain. Despite near-agony in my right leg, I experienced a sudden overpowering joy. It...