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Fall 2025: Time on Our Side.

Minutiae.

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by Marissa Bell Toffoli.

 

Measure, spend,
watch it fly.

Bright hummingbird
lit upon the air.

Passes by.
Can’t catch it.

Mist in morning light.
Can’t earn more.

Even yours will come.
Take notice,

time on your side.

Coyote Spring.

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by Tamra Lucid.   I was introduced to them as Johnny’s coyotes. That’s what the neighbors called the pack of wild canines living in the overgrown backyard of Johnny Depp’s Bavarian castle at the end of a cul de sac off the Sunset Strip. Even though it wasn’t true, tour guides told each new generation […]

The Life and Art of Dave Griffith.

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by Brian Griffith. My brother Dave died recently, and as he was an artist whose paintings were featured twice in EAP, I’m giving a tribute to him here. A few of his paintings from different stages of his life can illustrate how his concerns evolved over time. Three of the paintings are followed by brief […]

The Evolution of Afterlife Rewards and Punishments.

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by Brian Griffith. With the rise of belief that the conscious spirit survives death, people began judging deeds less by their immediate effects, and more by their expected consequences in the next world. So the Roman poet Virgil portrayed dead souls facing a fork in the road, with one path leading down to Hades and […]

Letter from Asheville.

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by Giles O’Dell.   Dear Tod, Hello again! I hope you and yours are in good health and spirits this summer! I’m enclosing the new issue of Zoonbats, continuing this lunar road trip. It took me several months to get back to writing and drawing after our surprise visitor, Helene, here in Asheville. In fact, […]

Bogey (from “My Life with Dogs”)

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by Tod Davies. My mother was a difficult person. So am I, her daughter, though in different ways. But that she loved me, and that I loved her, I have no doubt. Her care for me often showed itself as anger, or as ridicule, but this was her defense, learned early. How can I blame […]

The Nature of Time.

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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. Here is a question for you: why does time move forward? This may sound like one of those philosophical imponderables like, how can nothingness exist? Or what is the right way to distinguish between right and wrong? Or if God is omnipotent, can God make a stone so heavy that even […]

The Puppet Show.

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by Hussein Sayed Ali.   Introduction   “…” “…” “…” “That’s enough dramatic delay. I am Lorac, an AI tasked with entertaining you with short stories.” Slow background music plays as Lorac introduces himself to an empty audience, yet the AI talks as if he holds the attention of the world! “Today we will indulge […]

Stop.

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by Jim Meirose. stop Do not look up at the sky, it is much too large, and you are very very much smaller under it, and must stop knowing that. So; look down, and stop knowing. Do not look out, head into the miles-thick transparent reach of nothing, no, not at that horizon which always […]

hello werld.

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by Galen T. Pickett.   “First, something easy. Traditionally so, in fact. Write code that sends ‘Hello, World!’ to any output. Your display. Maybe our 3D printer. Anything,” Instructor said. A lonely keyboard made a clacking sound as the first student started typing. The sound grew as more got to work. Students murmured to themselves, […]