Revolution
/…prosperity, change are expected
as if they were a miracle or a boon.
We bank on a collective action
when it is formed of…
By Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa
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Sudden Change
/A topical/protest song lyric, envisioned as a “power ballad” style piece
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…say change comes
To those who wait
Some’s waited far too…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreA Great Day to be Alive
/…a recently-hired undergraduate instructor of Latin American Literature at San Francisco State University, likeable and quickly accepted by his students for his intelligence, his cheerful personality and his ethical correctness, was a content and happy…
By Thomas Hally
Read MoreLeave Your Clothes
/When I first saw the journal’s theme, Sudden Change, this crucial part of my life immediately jumped into my…
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…months before I turned six, the sister in charge at the orphanage where I lived said to me, “You are leaving here today. A family is adopting…
By Sharon Esterly
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/…change is what my life is called.
Uniquely I have lived in 16 to 20 unique places.
Dreaming of a time to be stable.
Doubt it will happen this…
By Clinton Siegle
Read MoreAlmost No Cat in the Hat
/Ted Geisel was at the end of his rope. As he walked down Madison Avenue...
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…he made a decision. He would burn the manuscript in his apartment incinerator – 27 rejections were enough – his book would not be turned down…
By Pete Black
Read MoreBarfquake
/…does not adequately describe the apocalyptic disgorging. Though the sink is right there—all I have to do is tip my head forward—contents of my stomach spew forth in firehose fashion. Kitchen window, fringed by lace curtains, rendered opaque by the first heave, completely blown out by the…
By Robert Morgan Fisher
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