The Last Stop – By Richard E Schell

    I fight to control my fears, the fears and thoughts that began the day when all things changed the world forever. With many miles...

No Longer As You Are – By Daniel Beer

    Behind the livestock barn, Finn washed his hands twice at the washbasin to get the smell of sweat and cow-hide work gloves from his...

Money to Burn – By Steve Slavin

    A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to...

The Maestro and The Prodigy – By Hemendra Killawala

    It was that time of the year in Benaras when the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple was fully decorated with marigold flowers. It was the...

Hsi-wei, Song Sidao and Shi Xing – By Robert Wexelblatt

    The forgotten poet Song Sidao was the son of a minor landlord in Yanzhou.  As the boy showed early promise, his father engaged a...

Jasmine Flowers – By Hemendra Killawala

    There he was again, this time watching her from the cigarette shop opposite her house. Anjana had been noticing him for the past few...

Shoreline – By George Angel

  ( Part 3 of 3) Click here for Part 1 Click here for Part 2 * 15. On my way to the twice-monthly appointment at the Commission of Lunacy, my teeth...

Shoreline – By George Angel

  ( Part 2 of 3) Click here for Part 1 * 8. I have never lived anywhere with a swimming pool. And yet, I have a distinct memory...

Shoreline – By George Angel

    What happens when what we know, what we live and feel leads us away from coherence and unity, and we are left only with...

The Picnic Basket – By Jonathan Ferrini

          "Items found “hiding in plain sight”, are best “left well enough alone”.   I raced home from work to my wilderness paradise,...

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