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With Regards To The Soul: Reflections on Mortality and Nature
Jun 22nd, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Featured Articles Nature is not man’s enemy, but it could care less about our demise or survival. Nature is a constant, in spite of our death’s life rolls on un-abated. We are but a universal flash in the pan. The universe is the environment of man…
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Remains: A Visit to a Father’s Grave
Remains Jun 8th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Short Stories L to R, W.B. Burkholder, R. W. Burkholder, Frederick Burkholder We pulled through the gates, past the caretaker’s office and made the slow deliberate drive to my father’s grave. This was to be my first visit to the cemetery. The year since his…
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Daddy’s Little Girl: A Childhood Memory
Daddy’s Little Girl Jun 21st, 2009 | By Paquita Roth | Category: Short Stories Paquita y Benito, 1968 The Most Beautiful Baby in the World She was only six months old, sitting up in her flowery pram. Her curls, black and silky, tumbled around her chubby face. Her left hand had grabbed one fat curl…
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One Woman’s Dream Come True: The Last Wordsmith Shoppe
Jun 27th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Featured Articles Small town America – In every state just outside of every major metropolitan area, countless number of small towns and villages dot the landscape. The town of Northeast Pennsylvania is just such a town, with one exception. The other towns are not fortunate enough…
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Poetry, Pages and Scribes: A Personal Reflection
Poetry, Pages and Scribes Jun 6th, 2009 | By Paquita Roth | Category: Featured Articles Considering that I grew up in Spain and received an oh so proper British education of classical poetry and literature, it’s a tad amazing that I did not attend an actual poetry reading until just last week! How flabbergasted I…
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Muted Yellows: Finding Beauty in Simple Joys
Muted Yellows Jun 25th, 2009 | By W.B. Burkholder | Category: Short Stories The muted yellows and golden browns of the fields, were speaking to him. They reached out and took hold of his very heart. He had always been partial to simple beauties, simple joys. He had made it a point to recognize the…
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The Adventures of a Thoroughly Confused Gigi – Part II
Jul 1st, 2009 | By Paquita Roth | Category: Short Stories by Maggie Voysest Why Thoroughly Confused? So why was Gigi confused? You’d think from the previous chapter that her online dating experiences would make it more “The Adventures of a Thoroughly Amused Gigi” not a “Thoroughly Confused Gigi.” But no. Sadly enough it was…
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