Writing Gallery
Good Stays The Same
/Classics are redeemed…
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… come and go. Good stays the same. I learned this wisdom from a man who fled his native Romania after the communists took over. His name was…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreThe Evening's Sounds
/… weather was nice, chilly but pleasant, the leaves blew in the gentle breeze, the birds sweet singing while nesting in the trees, the distant laughter, and voices of the students, sitting in groups everywhere around the…
By Amani Lazar
Read MoreBackyard Fence
/Happy Father’s Day!
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…family went to a baseball game at my father’s army post, Fort Sill, when I was little. We sat behind a man with a toupee. I stared and stared at the man with curiosity. Finally, I ran my fingers over the top of his head and brushed …
By Karol Nielsen
Read MoreLove's Tide
/…invited me to spend
a day on her yacht
on a warm June afternoon.
The sun climbed above …
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreFinding Joy...
/… mistook me for her next mistake.
She mistook me for her next ex.
X marks the spot at a dimly lit diner.
A sense of humor and dinner…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreRedemption
/Benny was a nobody, a nearly…
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…Benny had ever been a Jew, it must’a been a long time ago. Now he’s just a nickel & dime crook, the kind’a guy Chandler would’a called a street punk. Benny looked out for Benny…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreHazy Consciousness
/… not sure why, that night, I insisted on taking you to that small bistro on the pier of the stormy bay at the town’s northern edge. It was closed, as was customary on such evenings, but I asked George, who lived next door, to open it for…
By Fadi Abu-Deeb
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