Blood Sport/Steve Bromberg

Blood Sport/Steve Bromberg

© Steve Bromberg The trophy room of a big game hunter.   The Business of Killing: AAA “Ain’t it wild!”    By Steve Bromberg   It’s a fact. Humans are hunters and hunters love killing. Sometimes they love killing more than they love...

Ben Myers/Poetry

 Three Poems   BENEDICTION: For My Father   In the gravel driveway beside the house of peeling paint there is a motorcycle, but it does not belong to you. The bike is black, a dragon painted on its gas tank, tail entwining a woman in fur bikini.   You are getting...
Virtuous Liar/John Ballantine

Virtuous Liar/John Ballantine

Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous Bosch   You Must Learn the Joys of Sinning   by John Ballantine AAA You must learn to lie a little, bend the rules, and make the game work for you. You must learn the joys of sinning to make real money. Then we’ll wrap...
Movie Review/David Nestor

Movie Review/David Nestor

Winner of the Sundance Film Festival, Me, Earl and the Dying Girl Me, Earl and the Dying Girl by N. David Pastor Contributing Editor/Reviewer     The anxiety of storytelling begins with something with which most writers are familiar: the beginning of the...
Phyllis Carol Agins/Fiction

Phyllis Carol Agins/Fiction

THE ALTAR     by  Phyllis Carol Agins   Bella knows what she is running from. One failed marriage, two dramatic love affairs. A third abortion that was almost too late when she might be tempted, at thirty-nine, to keep this, maybe her only-chance baby....