By: Diane L. Merkel Just above a Geico bill and below a Chase credit card statement rested a white envelope. It was addressed to Leo in handwriting that was not unfamiliar to […]
Story: Pick-Up Truck
Will the Real Tim O’Brien Please Stand Up
By: Joe Peacock On his title page of The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien identifies these linked stories as “a work of fiction.” Had he not, readers could certainly fall into […]
Toast to International Friendship
By: Valery Petrovskiy When he came, a book lay on my desk, just children’s book, no suspense. Mere travel notes of a man who spent a vacation in Siberia rafting with his […]
Amazon.com buys Goodreads
Goodreads (www.goodreads.com) which has been a favourite destination for readers and writers around the world, will now be operating under Amazon’s banner. Amazon.com, Inc. yesterday announced that it has reached an agreement […]
Short Story: A Fence of Ferns
By Kersie Khambatta The silverback sat in solitary splendour. His extended family was spread all around him, at a respectful distance. He chose to ignore them. Two young ones were […]
Poem: Calvary
By: Pamela Riley I remember the color of your eyes that day we drove to Calvary and how you said my smile could murder the moon. Everything I did that summer was for […]
Poem: Mad Woman
By: Adreyo Sen Her madness was an open sore. A forgotten wound. It added years to a face closing in upon itself, like a government deposition. Her madness fled from her lined […]
Show Us, Mr. Faulkner
By: G. D. McFetridge I picked William Faulkner because of his unique style and voice, and because many pundits and critics still laud him as one of the past century’s literary geniuses. From […]
Poem: Xavier and Sixth
By: Lisa Anne Maryniw The air is crisp Breath rising in the Winter midst Darkness covers the vacant Streets of Mind and Soul. The Body is frail Dying from absence of food […]
Will the amended Copyright Act protect authors and artists from piracy?
The Literary Yard has received the press release from the Press Information Bureau of India on the Copyright Rules, 2013. The piracy has been a huge concern in India. Artists, authors and […]
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