Categoría: little chews
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“Web” by Bill Tope
Grabbing the cast-iron doorknob in one gloved hand, I edged the ancient wooden door open a crack, then pull it wide. It opened without a sound, on well-oiled hinges. Not knowing at all what to expect, I stood stunned on the threshold of the old, small outbuilding. There I beheld…
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“Shared Love” by Bill Tope
“What’re you gonna do,” asked Annie, tall and blond and strikingly beautiful, “when everybody’s insane?” “Everybody’s insane?” asked Disha skeptically. “Could you narrow it down a little?” She smiled, her perfect teeth white against her swarthy complexion. “Well,” said Annie, “the men in my life, all my relatives, the people…
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2 Poems by John Yamrus
there’s a ton ofreasonswhy Carl left, but,if you ask Maggie, notone of themwas any goodand neither was Carl. ~~ she looked me rightin the eye and said:these things are incredible. yourpoems have wings. i’llrememberevery single one of them fora long, long time. then,she put my bookback on the table, turned…
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5 Bach Poems by Richard LeDue
After Bach Hearing Bach’s Chaconneembellished in such a waythat emotions become flowersone buys for a first dateor for a gravestonenamed after someone you loved,and the mathematical precisionstarts to get sloppylike a drunk kisson New Year’s Eve,leaving Bach’s wife stilldead and buriedwhile he was away. ~~ Where Death Isn’t Silence Brahms…
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“Calling all Angels” by Peter Lingard
At a barbecue, a man I didn’t know paid too much attention to my date, Kathleen. The man called her Angel – Angel this and Angel that. Each Angel burrowing further under my skin. Jack, Kate’s brother and the host, realised I was getting annoyed. “He’s a pain, ain’t he?”…
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Let’s Get Wet by Carl Bernard Schwartz
Two geese introduce their goslings to the water (from Carl’s American River Collection).
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“Le Penseur” by Bill Tope and Doug Hawley
Stan sat before the old television set, unmoving. He was just dimly aware that his torso and limbs were arranged in the same posture as Rodin’s “The Thinker,” only in flesh tones instead of the bronze of the sculpture. While “Le Penseur” had for more than a century captivated observers…
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“Cousin Sherry (Back) on the Phone” by Bill Tope
I was surprised to hear from my cousin Sherry again. We hadn’t spoken since our telephone dust-up several years before, at the height of the Covid epidemic, when she vented her spleen on Dr. Fauci, Joe Biden, African Americans, and the like. Spying Sherry’s name on the caller ID, I…
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“if” by John Yamrus
if heor she ortheyor them or it speaksto your heart, takeit homeand keep it. everything elseis a great big waste of time.
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“SHE IS DISEASED” by Duane L Herrmann
The young man arrived at the train station. He was afraid he might be late. He stood on the platform and looked out over the tracks. There he saw a small girl, about three or four, playing in a cardboard box on the tracks. She was so absorbed in her…
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5 Poems by Mykyta Ryzhykh
Stone by stone The bird drinks the streamSip by sip The bird drinks the whole streamDrop by drop The bird drinks silenceSilence by silence The bird drinks timeGrain by grain The bird drinks God’s handsEternity by eternityDrinks innocence ~~ Earth earth falls out of the stomachmilk diluted with mothballsmilk bleached…
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“he was afraid…” by John Yamrus
he was afraid… afraidof dark things, strange things, dangerous things, difficultand deep things, andmost of allhe was afraid of her, and thatwas the best thing ever.
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“Can You Keep a Secret?” by Bill Tope
“I don’t know what to do first, Maureen,”lamented the young woman, now carryingher fourth child in five years. “What doesLarry say about it, Lindsey?” asked Maureen,referencing the other woman’s husband. “He thinks we should just have the baby.”muttered Lindsey in a tired voice. “We were upall night discussing it. Larry…
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5 Poems by Carl Bernard Schwartz
EVERYONE ELSE IS WISER THAN YOU Just browse the Internet for a little bit andyou will behold a unique phenomenon: youare a newbie with no standing whatsoever, soposting any kind of comment can get you ina whole world of trouble because of courseyou don’t know what you’re talking aboutunless you…
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