MOTHER’S DRESSER by Rosalia Scalia In the evening, after dinner, the grownups drink espresso laced with Sambuca or anisette, the aromas of licorice, of anise, of coffee rising up like extended fingers and mingling with whiffs of garlic, tomato, and basil,...
Why Does the New Moon Hide? Dogs barking at a skateboard rasping across the dark. The mother scolding her children to bed. A house where the wife is beaten. Tonight it is silent. May God keep her safe. The daughter leaving home, the door closed on her soft...
*** Boss of “The Biggest Little…” Rod Clark is co-founder and publisher of Rosebud, one of the longest-running independent literary anthologies published in the United States. By way of disclosure, one of his current cohorts in that...
Valerie Brown Photo Pickin’ Wildflowers by Michelle Terry My Grandma Leona was not a classic Depression-era beauty. Her harvest-browned skin and murder of jet-black hair were an arrant contrast to her delicate, shrinking-violet counterparts...
HANDING OF THE FLAG (Services of William Reese) At the grave site, as each star is swallowed by a fold or white-glove tuck, the flag moves, slowly, precisely, each tug calculated and rehearsed. The gatherers are silent, hearing each move, though...
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