From biblical stories to folklore, myths, novels, even poems, and now short stories—human history has been closely tied with stories. Being able to define what a short story is and what the elements of a short story are, is not enough to understand this form of literature. Immerse ...
Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree. I am alpha and omega, I am the beginning and the end, I am the first and the last. I don’t get wet I grow said the drip. Summer is a moving creature which likes to go south for winter. How now brown cow? H...
” he noted the successes, too: 70 stories, 89 poems, and a dozen pieces of non-fiction; seventeen writers published for the first time; sales as high as 150,000 copies for an issue.
has been published in thiscollection of winter essays, poems, and short stories.I hope others will find as much joy and inspiration in Rascal’s goofy charm and antics that I did. He will be missed forever, but his lessons of patience and grace will never be forgotten. Merry Christmas!
past the homeless on corners and downturned eyes commotion congestion the traffic fumes rise nothing but a stranger here nameless face in faceless crowds intriguing to get lost in, but longing to get out ill at ease now fatigued the lure no longer about ...
of sharing these conditions through writing. There is nothing more inspiring than walking into an overcrowded classroom, a homeless shelter, a maximum-security prison surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, and 45 or 90 minutes later, new poems have been created and are ...
Ergot broke open a fresh notebook and described her sleeping form in verse. The flowery smell of the dawn filled the plane but he thought he detected something else on her, a scent he couldn’t place and that his mind told him was best to ignore. In his poems, she became a nymph, ...
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