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what to do if you are in distress.

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by Chris Farago.

lie flat.
taste the earth, or tequila,
or something with a connection
to the future.  the world is a magic eye
puzzle and you have no focus.  focus.
all of your eyes are magical, so you can see
anything.  look at your old smoky mezcal
self and carry on.  pick up a stick in the
present and toss it to a dog in the present.
remember who started the war,
and who did nothing to end it.

The Last Night There.

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by Richard LeDue. Beer kept cold in the kitchen sink with ice because the fridge was too important to leave behind, my wife and I slept on an air mattress in the living room, while the rest of the house was empty as a waiting grave, and the last crumbs we swept up meant more […]

How to Lose.

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by Joanie Terrizzi. You can argue (wrestle) (wail) (fight) (rail) against reality. And continue to flail in waters made for drowning. Or you can fill your lungs with breath find your floating back and stare breathless at the starry sky no matter how the waters churn. Reality wins every time. You can soften your heart […]

Wildfire!

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by Diana Morley.   Fiery ash squalls around my car, whuffling grass, sizzling waxed paper cups on the road. Yellow-flamed paper curls to black clumps, rises up over the hood. I’m stuck in a long line on Highway 99, windows closed tight against sooty whirlwinds. But as leaves and ashes whip about, smoke slips in. […]

Memory of a Hero.

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by Tom Ball. It was the year 2099 and I was suffering from a case of amnesia. I couldn’t remember anything that happened in my 30’s, I blamed it on a fall that I seem to have had. But then one day when I was 44, in 2099, I found myself in love with a […]

Vita (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. My brother Bill was a college hippie at Chico State. He lived in Whiskey Flats, five miles out of Paradise. Years later, that same town was the one that famously burned to the ground, fast and furiously, a sign of climate change here and to come. By then the years had changed […]

The Female Touch in Iranian Filmmaking.

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by Zhinia Noorian and Brian Griffith. For some reason, Iran seems to have an unusually large number of great female filmmakers. In recent years there were over 50 women making films in Iran. Shirin Neshat, who is best known for her Silver Lion award-winning movie Women Without Men (2009), tried to explain: Perhaps those who […]

Bottom of the Heap.

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by David Griffith. The working class has always been considered the bottom of the social heap. While working as a carpet-layer in Houston, I used to live with several other people in the back of a mechanic garage on the west side. We used to play guitars at night, and there was always lots of […]

Memories of Atlantis.

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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. There was once a time—long ago—and a place. Food was plentiful, work was easy, and society was governed with wisdom, justice, and love. There was peace and universal happiness. We still remember that time and place—at least traces of the memory still haunt our dreams. Books are occasionally written about it. […]

I Wasn’t Mature at Their Age, Either.

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by David D. Horowitz. My memory feels like an underground river. It flows into and just below consciousness as it meanders through my day, which is sometimes spent tutoring. I’m semi-retired but I work part-time as a verbal skills tutor at a nationally franchised learning and test prep center in the Seattle area. My students’ […]