Thieving Magpie

Lisa Medway, Bio

Lisa Medway was a contributor to the Thieving Magpie’s FIRST Issue (Winter 2017/18). She recently published “Oregon Origin Story” for…

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

This is what happens when you have an affair with your editor. The man no longer knows his place. Instead...

I was happy in the factory. I met my now- ex-husband, I made good money, I had vacation time. I...

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,...

Still chirping. Still flapping. Still finding and gathering odd and precious gems of literary mischief from around the...

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...