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Sonnet of Youth Departing 27 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
Anne Babson Youth warns no one when it leaves the party. It does not thank the hostess, then air kiss, Then wave, hailing the hot night’s last taxi. Youth offers no one a ride home in this Weathe...
Ghost Pain 25 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
E. R. Womelsduff Knowledge is not power, knowledge is paralysis, is crippling. Knowledge is reaction, is indirect, is change. I threw away my curling iron. I found people with names like Roxie and As...
SoCal: A Sorting of the Ways 13 Aug 2013 | 12:51 pm
Ricardo Quinones “All people are the same,” breezing she goes over her bubbly; “Oh no they’re not,” passing on the fly I let out, with which I am glad to say even my masseuse agreed, though she...
Salisbury Plain 11 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Taylor Graham Just over [Stonehenge’s] shoulders I could see, in the blue haze of the remote distance, the spire of Salisbury Cathedral. — Elihu Burritt, A Walk from London to Land’s End (1865) Sea...
Suit 9 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
Gabriel Olearnik It was an orange hour, nearly seven o’clock, when I arrived. That time of day has always been the most beautiful season for me, when the neon starts to burn and line the edges of hou...
Operation Pedro Pan 5 Aug 2013 | 11:48 am
Monica Magnan They all carry something. The girl seated next to him has a holy card with Christ pointing to a gash in His heart, redder than a mango. His mother has given him a loaf of bread wit...
Cinemania or Revenge of the Bloodsucked 3 Aug 2013 | 11:40 am
Eleanor Bourg Donlon “I didn’t like it. It wasn’t serious enough.” It was a reasonable enough comment out of context, but with my knowledge of the subject under discussion (i.e., the virtues and vic...
Looking for Editors & Bloggers 1 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
Looking for power and riches? Then . . . read no further. If, on the other hand, you’ve been looking for a way to use your talents in a way that blends your love of literature and the Catholic faith,...
Profesore Takes His Cure 1 Aug 2013 | 11:33 am
Caroline Paddock Luca, the young doctor, stopped Peter in the middle of the alley and took the branches right out of his hand. “Professore, you feeling bad?” Luca asked. “I—” Peter muttered through ...
Born-Again Virgin 30 Jul 2013 | 11:24 am
Andrew McNabb Holy, holy Ciara, numbed below the waist in her freely flowing bridal gown. Three months fresh from absolution. Pre-Cana, and she had kept her word since, lying stiff as a board night a...
