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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars: (Ch. 13) Doom

By Brian Fawcett | 2023 May 22

Brian Fawcett, coming of age on a Sussex pig farm in 1962, is trying to secure the facts in a world that seems doomed by nuclear weapons and a population explosion. Ch. 13: Doom, of “The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars.”

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Scribbles from Italy: The Clang of the Past, Shouts and Hollers, The Slaughter of the Politicians, Entanglements

By Vian Andrews | 2023 May 20

Passages from Vian Andrews’ journals about living in Italy’s Umbrian countryside. He’s thinking about church bells clanging, children’s playgrounds, medieval donkey races, the brutal games of politics, and the bloody chore of pruning brambles and thorn bushes.

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Coronation

By Renee Rodin | 2023 May 18

A recent coronation leads Renee Rodin to think back to Queen Elizabeth II’s crowning in1953, when Rodin was an 8-year-old trhird-grader in a psychically-charged classroom in Montreal. A memory vignette that goes beyond the royal ritual.

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SENTENCE: I AM

By Mikhail Iossel | 2023 May 17

Mikhail Iossel recalls a moment in Leningrad as an 8-year-old Jewish boy, a luminous moment of being, loss, love, and language. The latest installment of SENTENCE, Iossel’s series of stories in a single sentence.

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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars: (Ch. 12) Insolence

By Brian Fawcett | 2023 May 15

Brian Fawcett, coming of age on an English pig farm in 1962, reads Voltaire’s “Candide” and wonders if the whole world is sliding back into the perils of “blind faith.” Ch. 12 of “The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars.”

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SENTENCE: CRYING

By Mikhail Iossel | 2023 May 10

Mikhail Iossel’s friend has an after-dinner nap nightmare about a firing squad. The latest installment of Iossel’s stories in one sentence.

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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 11): Death

By Brian Fawcett | 2023 May 8

Brian Fawcett thinks about death, on a pig farm in 1962, in the trenches of World War I and during the London Blitz. Ch. 11 of “The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars.”

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Scribbles from Italy: The Winds Do Blow, Orgasms & Anti-Vaxxers, Setting the Table, The Stink of Modern Life

By Vian Andrews | 2023 May 6

From Vian Andrews’ journals about life in Italy’s Umbrian countryside: reflections on the winds that blow, full course meals, the stench of daily life, and even orgasms and anti-vaxxers.

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SENTENCE: SWEDISH DEATH CLEANING

By Mikhail Iossel | 2023 May 3

Mikhail Iossel is riding a city bus in Montreal and thinking about a recently dead friend and a man on the street who resembles the friend with whom he’s lost touch. It’s a no-story in a “hasty” sentence, the latest installment of Iossel’s stories (and non-stories) in a single sentence.

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Writing Old Age, and two other poems

By George Stanley | 2023 May 2

From the Dooney’s archives.: “Writing Old Age, and two other poems” by Vancouver poet George Stanley, from his book “West Broadway” (2018).

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