True Tales of a Fictitious Spy/Excerpt

True Tales of a Fictitious Spy/Excerpt

* * * * * * “Charles de Gaulle’s Top Spy” * * * * * * The following is an excerpt from True Tales of a Fictitious Spy: A Hungarian Gulag Grotesquerie, written by Ferenc Aladár Györgyey and Paul Sohar, with contributions from  György Faludy, Gyula...
Bill Dixon/From the Edge

Bill Dixon/From the Edge

“the choice” by Jens Finke – fotografie grafik verlag * * All in a Day’s Work   I have known, broken bread with, and counted as friends a couple of heroin addicts. They weren’t the sort of people I imagined that people hooked on smack would be...
Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

Then and Now/Steve Poleskie

    The Bird Film   by Stephen Poleskie   A friend of mine, and former student, Thaddeus Rutkowski, recently sent me an e-mail about a project on Indiegogo to raise funds for an independent filmmaker who is planning to make a movie from his novel...
Galanty’s ReTweets

Galanty’s ReTweets

“Cheney Satan ’08” by futureatlas.com v AMERICA IN FIVE WORDS by Galanty Miller   |Dick Cheney protecting your freedoms. |”You are the father!” – Povich |We’re a nation of law… yers. |Colleges offer video game...
Casual Observer/Mark Levy

Casual Observer/Mark Levy

Happy Pi Day – P versus NP by Takashi v Pi Day * * * by Mark Levy * * * A  physicist named Larry Shaw worked at San Francisco’s Exploratorium and became enamored with pi. For those of you who may have slept through part of the seventh grade, the ratio of a...
Cuba, Moving Forward/Politics

Cuba, Moving Forward/Politics

* * *Photo by Patrizia08 (Pixabay) v Cuba and the United States * * * A few observations as the next steps are taken. * * * by Jim Palombo Politics Editor * * *  There’s been a good deal of discussion surrounding the developments in Cuban and U.S. relations. Of course...
Book Review / True Love Scars

Book Review / True Love Scars

  True Love Scars The First of the Freak Scene Dream Trilogy Michael Goldberg Neumu Press, © 2014 ISBN 9780990398301...
A Legacy of AIDS / Molly Krause

A Legacy of AIDS / Molly Krause

NIAID photo  Nina Pham, the Texas nurse who cared for Ebola patient Eric Duncan, leaves National Institutes of Health after being declared free of the disease....

Alexis Rhone Fancher

From her upcoming book of L.A. noir …     When I turned fourteen, my mother’s sister took me to lunch and said:   soon you’ll have breasts. They’ll mushroom on your smooth chest like land mines.   A boy will show up, a schoolmate, or the...
Ask a Non-Traditional Marriage Counselor

Ask a Non-Traditional Marriage Counselor

 ©David Corby via Wikimedia Commons The Shortest Leash: Ask a Human-Pet Marriage Counselor   Dear Reader: Now that same-sex marriage has opened the door to people marrying their pets, inanimate objects, siblings, etc., the need for relationship advice in all...
From the Edge / Bill Dixon

From the Edge / Bill Dixon

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