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Month: October 2019

Hail, an Act of God

By: Mike Sharlow I was watching the Lakers play the Heat Sunday afternoon when the local weather geek interrupted the game to announce a severe storm warning. This clean cut, slightly post pubescent weather guy tried to, in a less…

The Right Idea

By: Sterling Warner “Gerry—why do you always seem a couple years younger each time I see you?” “Dunno. Sunscreen? Diet? Skin lotion?” Gerry replied. “Smartass!” “At your service, Martin.” “But you’re sorta right…all my outdoor construction works makes me face…

Keeping the farm

By Dawn DeBraal Henry Passet tried to move his horse forward. Stubborn as he was his stallion Lightening, stood his ground. Henry pulled out his riding crop, striking the horse several times to get him to move forward. Lightening reared…

November Forest Walk

By: Christopher Johnson The road wagged back and forth like the tail of a dog, curling around saltboxes and Cape Cods and three-hundred-year-old colonials with rough-hewn beams and low ceilings. Eventually the road passed the Nobscot Boy Scout reservation, west…

If You Can Come Away

By: Welkin Siskin If you can come away with sublime love beating out of our union, Being oblivious, creating disaffection, I guess should I leave you on your wish. It is not just because I wish, but because you do….

Chinese Poet Hongri Yuan’s Two Poems

By Chinese Poet Hongri YuanTranslated by Yuanbing Zhang I Was Originally The God of the Gods I shall change seawater into honey, smelt the stone into the gold, The bitter is namely sweet, the sun is born from the womb…

Lost Civilization Re-emerges

By William T. Hathaway In the early 1950s, as the newly developed hydrogen bomb cast its mushroom-shaped shadow of megadeath over the world, an aged Indian monk gave his young assistant a mission: create world peace and enlightenment by restoring…