Local award-winning author, Peggy Hogan, is thrilled to announce that her second novel, Milo’s Burden, has been released by Double Dragon Publishing. She will host a launch at the Hunter River Memorial Library on May 18 starting at 6:30 pm. There will be readings, signings, refreshments, and Hogan will perform an original song…
Category: Contributions
Words (from Marie Lyon)
Cindy, I agree that words like “you know”, “like”, “to make a long story short” are overkill in conversations. Here are some that I notice each time they are used – “I’m good”, “really unique”, “very rare”, and “no problem”. I especially took note of one of our summer guests, a German woman with a…
The Man in the Chair by Charles Beeler
THE MAN IN THE CHAIR The man was a former home renovating contractor forcibly retired due to a workplace disaster almost five years ago. It was the stupidest of accidents, something he had done countless times before without incident. On the day in question he was climbing a ladder to the second story roof…
Herbl, The Worm Who Controlled The World by Evan Dickson
Herbl the mud worm lived a quiet life, in a quiet patch of mud, in a quiet corner of a cozy forest. It was a good life, and a very unassuming one. Very rarely would anyone or anything bother Herbl, which was just fine. No one would have either, had they known that Herbl was…
Three Poems by Ceri Naz
my waterfront i have composed a little journey of joy snippets on the tiny sands and waves on my feet i have seen the hinterland’s trance from shadow-prints the springs of my summers have gone to the waterfront of my genesis © Ceri Naz February 2015 i am, i was, i will i am…
The Greatest Gift by Joyce Simpson
With the snow finally disappearing and spring at last in the air it is unusual that my thoughts turn to Christmas – not just any Christmas, but the Christmas of 1984, when I received my most unusual gift. It was not a gift I had asked for, nor was it a gift that…
Advise (a poem by Anca Mihaela Bruma)
Advise Shake those deep and hypnotic dreams from your hair!… Let the purple undertones … become your rain!… Let ideas color your eyes! Let the purple mountains find your Destiny beyond your sunsets and sunrises!… Let the breath ink your Life in an Eternity portrait where your Heart relapsed in Time!… (Anca Mihaela – 10th…
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