2019, by David Selzer.
“Let chaos be our only hope,/ and the triumph of youth!”
A BENEDICTION FOR THE COMING YEAR, by Chris Farago.
“If tears come, let us also rejoice,/ For it means good times will follow the bad”…
DEATH OF A HUMMINGBIRD, by Tamra Lucid.
“How could I comfort the dying/ when I knew I could not interfere?“…
MRS. JOHNSON, by Bruce E. R. Thompson.
“But then it leaped and rose,/ as gracefully as song,”…
THE CAROUSEL, by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
“A beginning for every end”…
JAKE AND THE RAT, by Denis Bell.
“Jake opens up the box and inside he finds a box of dreams” …
THE HILLS OF ETERNITY, by Nick Engelfried.
“And when it was all too much, Marvin would go up into the hills”…
A SMALL MAN IS EASY TO KEEP, by Lanny DeVuono.
“…yet for nearly seven months, I lived with the perfect man.” …
BLACK HOLE, by Darren Payne.
“The cell-phone slid silently into the water.” …
OWLS, MAN, by Guinotte Wise.
“I said look, here you go, do some owl wisdom”...
IRAN’S FIRST FEMINIST WAVE IN THE 1890s, by Brian Griffith.
“The women in the audience physically drove him from the podium” …
PORTRAITS OF ANGELS IN THE SKY, by Barry Vitcov.
“Visions of futures we might surmise”…
AMERICANS: GROW UP, by Charles Fischman.
“One might well ask, why did the Baby-Boomers not mature?”…
ELEGY FOR THE LEAVES, by Mir-Yashar Sevebagheri.
“Some take flight again, but others are trampled upon”…
DAYLIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, by David D.Horowitz.
“And so the truth might stay buried” …
FROM “BlOGOSTAN_01”, by Michal Zablocki, translated by Charles S. Kraszewski.
“I know that there is something Thou requirest of me/ But mightest Thou not express thyself more clearly?”
LIABILITY, by Sean Murphy.
“And it occurred to me: if poverty could be remedied on a case-by-case basis, starvation would become extinct with remarkable efficiency…”
The TODBLOG is serious about this going down must come up stuff, because there’s nowhere else to go right now…JAM TODAY loves duck with a crispy skin, so if you’re duck averse, just skip to the pickled beets…
This issue’s picture contributed by EAP creative director Mike Madrid, an illustration of a card from The Luna, in The History of Arcadia series by Tod Davies.
The next issue is 1 April, and it’s the SPRING 2020: GOT CHRYSALIS? issue…contributions by 1 March, please…
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