AN UNEARTHLY GRACE by Peter McQuade
The ice surface at the Mount Vernon Sports Complex—my home rink—was down for repairs that springtime Saturday evening in 1984. That meant I’d have to go to the Fairfax Ice Arena instead....
SILVER SHADOW by Rekha Valliappan
'We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man
can be master of a craft, and how a craft...
SAVING SOULS by Marian Fredal
Saving Souls
We watched the door. All fifty of us in St. Sylvester School Grade 3 learned to listen and to watch for our teacher, a tall nun dressed...
LAYERS OF FORGIVENESS by Laurie Gelfand
“Children begin by loving their parents; then they
judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
--Oscar Wilde
My once tall, athletic, commanding father...
THE TORCH FOR PEACE by Deborah Kent
THE TORCH FOR PEACE
by Deborah Kent
I met Lydia in my college dorm back in 1966, and I knew right away we had nothing in...
GETTING COCKY by Mary Ann Koruth
My uncle raises chickens for eggs. To facilitate egg production, he bought a rooster. The brood runs around in the grass in the back of his house, which was my grandmother’s before...
YOU’LL ALWAYS BE THE TRUMP NEIGHBORS by Chris Sowers
You’ll Always Be the Trump Neighbors
I’ve seen you walking your dogs around the neighborhood. Almost every day for the last 17 years, ever since we built this house...
BLESSED ARE THE FREE IN SPIRIT. A JOURNAL IN COMPLICATED TIMES by Samuel...
Blessed Are the Free in Spirit. A Journal in Complicated Times
by Samuel Robert Piccoli
Here we go again, a new book is born. A few...
THE ANATOMY OF DISCONNECTED LINES by Tim Harris
The Anatomy of Disconnected Lines
I first noticed him on the other side of Westbury Avenue, as we both made our way to the bus stop.
LESS WE FORGET by Gretchen Weaver
“Her name is Dua Lipa, mom, not Leepa Dupa,” says my very exasperated 15-year-old son.
“Oh, you know who I’m talking about,” I laugh it off, but ugh.
