by Brad Shurmantine Always one foot on the groundAnd by protecting my heart trulyI got lost in the soundsAll of these voicesI hear in my mind all these wordsAnd it breaks my heartIt breaks my heart. –Regina Spektor In Search of Eros. That was the name of an LP that played over and over behind… Read More Fidelity
by Bob Strother I don’t typically give much thought to my high school days now that they’re several decades removed and interactions with former classmates all but vanished. A not-so-subtle reminder, though, arrived in this morning’s mail: my graduating class’s fifty-fifth reunion notice. I hold the unfolded papers in my hands—one sheet purple, the other… Read More But for Chance
by Bob Strother I never saw my father until I was six years old, and then only briefly. My mother and I lived with her family following the divorce until she remarried about the time I turned seven. I didn’t miss having a father during those early years. Aside from the neighborhood kids whose… Read More A Pink Tree For Christmas
by Kathryn Etters Lovatt My father was a liar. Not the sorry kind, who didn’t stand behind his word. He kept his promises. Or tried to. But give him fact or fancy, and from that single seed, he could raise a field of poppies. He pinched a lot of his material from the sorts… Read More Believing What Never Was
by Sharon May Chapter 1: How Did I Get Here? I was born in February 1957, which might be a good place to start my story. My birth was lost on most except my mother’s immediate family and nosy neighbors because of one of the most devastating floods of the century. I’m sure my… Read More Hillbilly Crazy and Mountain Queer
by Vivian Bikulege 1. Bits A. There is a snapshot in the archives of the New York Daily News of Leiby Kletzky waiting on the street for Levi Aron to pay his dental bill. The Brooklyn boy got lost walking home from camp and the moment was captured by a surveillance camera on July… Read More Cuttings
