A Crisis of Faith by M. Stone

A Crisis of Faith by M. Stone

Art: Fabrice Poussin A CRISIS OF FAITH A woman shall be silent in church. She shall be submissive to her husband. Her skirt shall be no more than two inches above the knee.   We girls stood in neat rows and held sour lemon drops of shame on our tongues. At day’s...
Spring by Karol Nielsen

Spring by Karol Nielsen

Art: Fish in Open Currents by Tobias Oggenfuss SPRING Spring is a tomboy all done up, an amazon and a unicorn intertwined, the reward after winter’s test, a fragile beauty in the end. About the author:  Karol Nielsen is author of the memoir, Black Elephants (Bison...
An Insect’s Dream of Honest Concrete by Miles Varana

An Insect’s Dream of Honest Concrete by Miles Varana

Art: Journey Within by Carolyn O’Neill, @carolynoneillartist AN INSECT’S DREAM OF HONEST CONCRETE So often there are blocks that give way to the arachnidian spires of wind-up basilicas and stretchered nuns who cry out pantomime Italian, Questo è tutto per...
Hiding by Frank Candeloro

Hiding by Frank Candeloro

Art: Welcome Museum Guests by Alex Duensing HIDING Frequently I’ll go away and hide. It makes me feel better about things. It’s not something that as a grown man I’m especially proud of, butI could be up to a lot worse. Sometimes I’ll tell my wife I’m going for a...