This Old Brick Church
/About the historic brick…
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…at a crossroads
this old brick church,
straddles…
By Russell Willis
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Magic Smile
/…matter how bitter a grudge you brood
Or how deep and vast a sorrow you bear
It only takes a smile to uplift your…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreChasing Perfection
/…at the kitchen table
over a Blue Hawaiian,
which evaded perfectionism
over pushing through…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreThe Lucky...
/During a rainy day…
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…frustrating time clapping thunder applauded and the heavenly electricity flashed supplying the…
By Marc OBrien
Read MoreA Butterfly On My Hat
/…life is a colorful meadow
With blossoming flowers in spring;
With ladybugs shining around
And crawling-up beetles that…
By Petrouchka Alexieva
Read MoreMaking Things
/Much is made of the “creative…
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…remember a sleepy afternoon in third grade. I’d been puzzling over our new vocabulary list. I was having…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreA Slow S m i l e
/…witty and the woeful
went tête-à-tête and toeful.
The wit said, “Smile for a while.”
The woeful did…
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreThe Refresher Course
/…was tired this morning, his eyes struggling to focus on the computer monitor. In the office all around him, his colleagues tapped away at identical computers, entering the data, updating the…
By Chris Platt
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