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This One’s for Linda
The world had different rules for women in 1972 than today.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Contraband
“I was certain everyone already knew about the little plastic bag in my purse, including the man walking toward me.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Contraband” by David Swan.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Wait
“On one side of the red vertical line, she wrote DUMP HIM. On the other side, she wrote HUMP HIM.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Wait” by Amy Clements.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, EssaySaturday
Home is Where I’ve Arrived Too Late
“To feel like I belong, like I’ve put time into one place and stayed long enough to put roots down.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Home is Where I’ve Arrived Too ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
#StorySunday 30th April: I Didn’t Know You’d Be Insane
“Human beings had become a multi-planet species, but that didn’t change anything.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “I Didn’t Know You’d Be Insane” by Damien Baisden.
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews, Translations
BOOK REVIEW: THE LAST POMEGRANATE TREE
Twenty-one years of solitary imprisonment have made the Kurdish freedom-fighter Muzafar-i Subhdam a nomad, roaming inside his own thoughts…
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Only a Ten-Minute Walk from Here
“I realized I was a curiosity to the people Elizabeth worked with…” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Only a Ten-Minute Walk from Here” by David Joseph.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Mine
Picture credit: Erin Wallace
I just saw your beautiful fox: my neighbor texts me on her early morning walk past my house.
I’ve seen the fox many times, usually over the ...
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Purple Polka Dots
Picture credit: Supriya Rakesh
I hate early morning flights, I really do.
Yet, I take one at least once a month. 6 a.m. Indigo from Bangalore to Bombay.
Long weekend. Diwali. A persistent ...
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Year Three
“We’ll just move far away from everyone, Mark declares, too far for people to visit.” Today’s EssaySaturday USA is “Year Three” by Edie Meade.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
The Three of Us Laughed About Her Husband’s Death
“He said I would need it to play my part.” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “The Three of Us Laughed About Her Husband’s Death” by Frank Weisberg.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Acid Park
“Lightning struck again, this time close. The storm was getting angrier…” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Acid Park” by Tyra Lechner.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
#EssaySaturday USA 25 March: Sealight
“This place has fast become our sanctuary…” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Sealight” by Chris Ray.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Two Years of More Than 24 Months of Feelin’ Like This
Picture credit: Yohan Marion
“Where you been all these seasons, boy?”
A familiar voice emphasized only one clear word in its mushy drawl and since it wasn’t boy or all, the middle-aged ...
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
On Not Knowing
“I moved here to embrace the not knowing. It doesn’t come easily.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “On Not Knowing” by Katherine Plumhoff.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Baci a Tutti
“This time scribbled across the front, reads, ‘Baci a Tutti Tua Rosa.’” Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Baci a Tutti” by Gabrielle Dufrene.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, EssaySaturday
Wherever You Go, There You Are
“Just like that, my world unravelled in seconds.” Today’s #EssaySaturday USA is “Wherever You Go, There You Are” by Teresa Shimogawa.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
The Sound of Snow Not Falling
“The man in the camel wool djelaba appeared from the shadows…” Today’s #StorySunday USA is William Winston’s “The Sound of Snow Not Falling”.
Editor's Pick, Fiction, Story Sunday, StorySunday
Dinner Party Exit Strategy
A married couple attend a business party and get more than they bargained for. Today’s #StorySunday USA is “Dinner Party Exit Strategy” by Max Talley.
Is anybody “active now”? Longing in the Era of Instant Messages
They are all ‘green’, colleagues and customers, they are ‘active now’ The same with my students yesterday, I sent the fourth reminder.