Literary Yard

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Non-Fiction

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Learning in the Shadow of Loss

By: Torsaa Emmanuel Oryiman Nature! Nature! Nature! Nature! Nature! Nature! There were moments—long, aching moments—when it felt like nature itself had turned its back on me. As if the very earth I walked on, the sky I looked up to,…

grayscale photography of cathedral ceiling

‘Catechism’ and other stories

By David Sapp Catechism We were Catholic simply because Dad grew up Catholic and remained so because President Kennedy was Catholic. We rarely missed Sunday mass at Saint Vincent de Paul, the limestone Neo-Romanesque church surrounded by a black wrought-iron…

OLD ANTIQUE TRUNK

The Tickle Trunk

By John RC Potter           This is not as much about an old antique trunk as it is about my sister, Jo Ann, and perhaps more importantly, about her childhood sweetheart, Paul, whom she married at a very young age…

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The High School on the Hill

By: Daniel Acosta, Jr. Prologue  At a very early age when I started grade school in 1951, I saw that the white kids at my school were the ones favored by the teachers, especially those who were smart and popular….

A Proven Path to Peace

By William T. Hathaway The waves of war are rising again around the fragile ship of our civilization, threatening to sink it to the depths of barbarism and radioactive megadeath. The principle to preventing this is stated in the constitution…

A Better Me

By Vanaja Malathy The enchanting Denver city in the US that I have come to stay in, has beautiful parks. In spring and summer, it’s a treat to walk in these parks. My daily routine included a morning walk in…

Songs of Love and Mourning

By: Brian Michael Barbeito  Songs of Love and Mourning, 4:07 on the Clock, Kaleidoscope Travel Observations  Princess America and the Desert Wind The bus goes through the desert beige and I fall quickly and quietly in love with the world…