Julie Rico is originally from Detroit, Michigan, where she worked on the assembly line, and then at the […]

This is what happens when you have an affair with your editor. The man no longer knows his place. Instead of “Mad Magazine’s” “Spy vs. Spy”, we have “Ego vs. Ego.” Both of ours – colossal.

I was happy in the factory. I met my now- ex-husband, I made good money, I had vacation time. I was in a union. Where else can you get a job with those kinds of perks?

Nothing about loving you is ice, or cold. Well, maybe your feet. Mine,
too.

And so here we stand, face to face at the end of our long day, staring into each other’s red, drooping eyes, the sore bare soles of our feet cooling on the bathroom tile…

Still chirping. Still flapping. Still finding and gathering odd and precious gems of literary mischief from around the world, and still presenting them in our cozy little nest of mayhem. And happily so.

For more information on Mr. Bastarache, please click on to the Artist’s Bio link.

Somehow, despite punishing poverty, they gave their hard-earned shekels, rubles, zloty (Polish $$$) to a traveling photographer to take their picture. Why did they feel the need to have their picture taken?

Writer and poet Mindy Ohringer was a contributor to the Thieving Magpie’s Issue 2. She considers the intersection […]