I am aware
Of my audience breathing, smell what
They ate for lunch, know
Whether their deodorant works.

John Tessitore has been a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, and a biographer. He has taught British and […]

I’ve been too ready to believe in
the inevitability of pain,
mine, also yours, blaming our limits
on a calculus: how one sets the rate
of change for the rest…

Salma was an imperious beauty, an established clinical psychiatrist, the first born of the four Azizi siblings and very much the apple of her father’s eye. Her steadfast refusal to get married even while her younger siblings all settled down had been extremely vexatious for Mrs Azizi and in the last couple of years even had the doting Mr Azizi deeply concerned…

Ranjan was born and raised in Calcutta. After reading Economics in and completing an MBA from Delhi University, […]

Lawrence Uri is a constant writer and student of fiction. Adelaide Magazine published one of his short stories. […]

We made it to the counsel table before the clerk said, “All rise.” While Judge Beverly Sanders entered the courtroom, Kara and I traded smiles. Hers conveyed a mild curiosity about our last-minute entrance. Mine returned a false promise that all was well.

Jimmy Coleman’s first appearance on our fair planet took place at some point during the last millennium. The […]

So with that in mind three ladies from the Deep East Texas pineywoods, laden with high-mindedness and a vengeful spirit and loaded for bear, with a concoction of Devil’s brew itself, were about to be turned lose on the local Ku Klux Klan…

Enjoy.  Peace.  Shaloha!