Writer's Corner and Ezine Submission

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April 1, 2005

• Abstract Thoughts of Reality
  by Heather Snider - a short poem
  I see images of a man treading thin water, through corridors of confusion, with portraits of a girl, choking on reality.

March 1, 2005

• Things We Now Can't Live Without
  by Judith Grant - a short story
  My thirteen-year-old nephew exclaimed in disbelief when I told him that I grew up without a television.

February 1, 2005

• Close Call
  by Jeff Solimando - a short story
  The buzz continues to ring through his brain; not completely voiding out reality, yet somehow strangely enough, beginning to accommodate it.

January 1, 2005

• Cinnamon, Sticks, and Honey
  by Gillian Barbeler - a short story
  Emma's mother folded the last piece of washing from the line and put it into her basket. She looked up at the darkening sky. “Emma love, it's going to storm shortly, will you gather your toys up now and bring them in please?”

November 1, 2004

• Life or Something Like It
  by Rebecca Chatterpaul - an essay
  I couldn't believe. NO, I didn't want to believe she'd allowed herself to be taken in by my father's silver tongue and winning smile once again.
• The Hell of War: Part One
  by Evelyn O. Simon - a short story
  James A. Bryce, a thirty year old U.S. Army lieutenant in the third infantry, was on duty in Iraq; he was a loving father of two, and a devoted husband.

October 1, 2004

• Something to Laugh About
  by Mitko Grigorov - an essay
  It was the fourth of July, 1998. The date was not significant to me until that particular day. That it was the same date as the American Independence Day is nothing more than mere coincidence.
• In the Flash of a Moment
  by Teresa Kron - a short story
  At first I couldn't believe what was happening, that my head had gone completely under and I was gulping chlorinated water that was flooding my nostrils and burning my throat.

September 1, 2004

• Why Did You Have to Go? (We Miss You So)
  by Mike Williams - a short poem
  There were times we laughed, But hardly cried, Though it still hurt, To say goodbye...

August 1, 2004

• A Man Named Alex, Who is No Longer a Stranger!
  by Kristen Hintz  - a short story
  “You need to figure out who you are,” the long-limbed psychiatrist had told him only one day prior. “This sleepwalking,” she had said, “stems from something deep within you. When, exactly, did it start?”

July 1, 2004

• Hell's Angel and Heaven's Demon
  by Emily Cooper - a short story
  True humans first became aware of thee 60,000 years ago. A war was to start between the two realms of death. Every thousand years a war rages between Heaven and Hell.

June 1, 2004

• Lyla's Ladybug
  by Darla Paskell - a short poem
  Hats hold back the breeze; fingers tingle and freeze while we search for a ladybug home.

April 1, 2004

• Flight 93
  by Michael Burch - a short poem
  like vultures shrieking earthward, in a stall ... we floated... earthward ... wings outstretched, aghast... like Icarus... as through the void we fell...

January 1, 2004

• Stuck!
  by Patricia Gosálvez - a short poem
  Be gloomy not, for time shall pass, and lay in merry wonder as dreams doth last.