You can see this coming, can’t you?
THE WORST DISASTER, by Bruce E.R. Thompson.
Tell us the worst that could happen . . .
MOVING LIFE’S GOALPOSTS: FROM LIVING WELL TO LIVING FOREVER, by Brian Griffith.
The worst is not facing up to what could happen . . .
LOVE HOWEVER SHAMEFUL IT SEEMS, by Zhinia Noorian.
If the worst is love, maybe it’s worth it. . .
SOONER (from “My Life with Dogs”), by Tod Davies.
Rewriting history, the American family sport . . .
BACK SEAT, by Barry Vitcov.
Speaking of family life . . .
WHEN YOUTH ARE “THE ADULTS,” by Nick Engelfried.
Another recipe for, well, you know . . .
CAPITALISM-FOR-DISASTERS, by Danbert Nobacon.
Mr. Nobacon lists he horrifying potential . . .
ETTS APPROVAL PROCESS, by Jim Meirose.
Mr. Meirose as usual puts confusion into lyrical form . . .
Excerpt from DOG ON FIRE, by Terese Svoboda.
Ms. Svoboda, as is her wont, in pure literature . . .
THE MORAL OF THE TALE, by David Selzer.
Speaking of literary disasters . . .
DISTRACTED: A SHORT PLAY, by T.C. Eisele.
And the distraction of literature can be a disaster . . .
RIDING THE DRAGON, by David Bolton.
A history of disaster . . .
MONAGHAN’S VIRTUAL BAR, by Tom Ball.
Mr. Ball projects our recipe into the future. . .
THE PENULTIMATE CITY, by Dawn Raffel.
Ms. Raffel, even worse, projects into the near future . . .
SIX HAIKUS FOR AMERICA, 2023, by Sean Murphy.
Denial and adults acting like children, here we are again . . .
SECRETS, by Yahia Lababidi.
Outside of secrets, is transformation possible? . . .
if you’d rather watch, by Chris Farago.
A little intermission of hope here . . .
SPECIAL, by David Milley.
And a sly recipe, too . . .
DISASTER, by John Van Pelt.
We were speaking of recipes, weren’t we? . . .
GOLIATH now meme, by Diana Morley.
Sparring for disaster is a favorite sport . . .
ADD A PINCH OF PEPPER, by David D. Horowitz.
Disastrous to believe everyone is the same . . .
CHAIN LINK, by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
“The leash cinches tight around the neck/ of the dog just as she thinks she’s escaped” . . .
The TODBLOG reiterates what EAP was/is all about, it’s worth a revisit . . . JAM TODAY loves making soup from shrimp shells . . .
This issue’s picture is by EAP’s (and Tod’s) own ALEX COX . . .
The next issue is 1 July, and it’s the SUMMER 2023: BEYOND PHYSICS issue…contributions by 1 June, please…
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