Rich Ives/Flash Nonfiction

Rich Ives/Flash Nonfiction

Murphy Photo *** One Perception of Grandeur Passes Quietly into Another   by Rich IvesContributing Writer In the ceiling above the sky’s ceiling, the fallen seed cannot see the flower. I’m reading a worthless book by candlelight when an owl asking me to ignore it...

Jim Feast/Book Review

          border crossings by Thaddeus RutkowskiPaperback, 6″x9″96 pagesSensitive Skin BooksISBN: 978-1977850898$12.95   by Jim Feast There is a poem called “Border Crossings” in a new book of the same name by Thaddeus...

Michael T. Young/Poetry

     Dredging Gulls tow my gaze out beyond the breakwaters and jetties, to coast there among the glass towers. Wind whips the water in me into waves and spindrift. Along all my shores are hardnesses broken down into sand, fragments supposed to equal the history of me....

Fiction/Jean E. Verthein

      Plie, Adjust, Tundu, Tap   by Jean E. Verthein Contributing Writer Three in the morning. The phone rang. It did, didn’t it? After all, detectives called for midnight lineups to check whether the attacker from six months earlier was there. But...

Ed Coffey/Essay

Why Do I Race? by Ed CoffeyContributing Writer I ran for 10 years before I ever even knew that ordinary people raced. I thought that racing was for elite or, at least, very talented runners. The people I saw on TV, I thought they were special people. I thought...