Our Back Yard

Our Back Yard

Binghamton Visitor Bureau Photo *** Our Back Yard   The Earth is rich with treasure. We are fortunate to have had the opportunity to mine a bit, and time and again to have hit pay dirt. In addition to the people whose works appear in the links below, there are...

Intercourse in Absentia/Cris Mazza

  Intercourse in Absentia   By Cris Mazza Contributing Writer   Apparently I have not lived the kind of life a writer needs. I have not, nor has anyone in my immediate family, recovered from an addiction, nor from a catastrophic injury or disease. I’ve...
Pyro: A memoir of California/Creative Nonfiction

Pyro: A memoir of California/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Andy Watkins on Unsplash *** Pyro: a memoir of California   by Gregory Von Dare My workday day began at 6:00 a.m. After the clock-in, my first task was to open a six-foot tall safe. That hulk was painted fire-engine red, and its walls were three-inches thick...
Susan Hodara/Creative Nonfiction

Susan Hodara/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash ***  Buck   by Susan Hodara Contributing  Writer   Antlers curving upward. Grayish fur that looks mangy; oily; not soft to touch. Eyes round as targets.  Or would that be the singular ‘eye’?  Because the buck is in profile, mid-air,...
Entwined/Creative Nonfiction

Entwined/Creative Nonfiction

Photo by Barry McGee on Unsplash *** Entwined   by Lisa Werhan Sunglasses hid his eyes, and he pointed a stubby finger at the shaded crops draped in raggedy, sun-bleached nets. “What’s growing under there?” His voice was thin and flat. “Tobacco,” I replied. Duh....