PoetryJuly 4, 2017<July 2, 2017 Biscuit World by Valerie Bacharach We stop at Biscuit World on the way home from my father’s funeral. Leave the flatlands of North Carolina, cross the border into the…
QuoteJuly 4, 2017<July 2, 2017 Make America again! by the daily asterisk The free? Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The…
EditorialJuly 3, 2017<July 2, 2017 Suspicious origins by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma I’ve sampled enough random plants in the woods to learn an important lesson: if it doesn’t taste good, don’t eat it. Just a small…
QuoteJuly 3, 2017<July 2, 2017 Violent delights by the daily asterisk These violent delights have violent ends. Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet