Out From The Center
A short story By Tantra Bensko We never know where to get started, because it is never obvious where the beginning is in the pathways spread circularly around us, hedges blossoming with reds, cut in...
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A short story by Cheryl Wood Ruggiero Designer Deities. The artfully hand-painted wooden sign was stuck on chipped brick beside a wooden door newly painted purple. The door opened onto narrow stairs...
View ArticleCirque Psychologique
A short story by Nancy Stebbins Hey you, boy! Hey, boy! Hey, misfit! A loose memory taunts you, jittering at the edge of your consciousness. It’s there the moment you wake up on the cold ground, the...
View ArticleDarwin’s Butterfly
A short story by R. I. Sutton How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? ~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell...
View ArticleA Vertical Life
A short story by Tantra Bensko Kundra began eating miracles at age 13. She learned to heal then, from a distance, instantaneously, even those she never met. She wondered even if sometimes the birds...
View ArticleWorthless Days
Creative nonfiction by Margaret Dulaney I wonder if I am the only one who suffers from worthless days, days when I simply cannot fathom what I am doing with my present incarnation, as if everyone...
View ArticleEuclid’s Mirror
A short story by Terry Paul Pearce A sphere sits on a concrete plain, and a man stands and peers into it. To the man, the surface of the sphere appears silvered, opaque and clear—all at once. He...
View ArticleLa Llorona
A short story by Sandra Jensen Hard in my mouth. Tearing. Taste of blood metal. I smell salt, my own spit-froth. I’m sweating. She’ll fall off if I don’t stop. I feel her knees through the leather,...
View ArticleThe Peach at the End of Days
A short story by Bruce Holland Rogers “Please, no parable today. I don't think I could sit still for it.” “You don't have time to hear a story?” “What I mean is that the world is in such peril.” “You...
View ArticleThe World That Got It Right
A short story by Mark Joseph Kiewlak I began to wonder why I was sleeping so much, what I was trying to avoid. The waking world, its getting and spending, its rushing to and fro, frightened me beyond...
View ArticleThe Sunlight and the Well
Creative nonfiction by Sam V. Guthrie The flight attendants did one last cabin check before takeoff, blissfully unaware that, soon after leaving the runway, our plane was going to crash in a blazing...
View ArticleThe Old Man, the Ocean, and the Bird
A short story by Iztac Metztli There was an old man who dreamt of being a bird. He was a guayabera wearing viejito who never considered dressing in anything other than white. White was the color of...
View ArticleDaughters of Hemingway
A short story by Robbie Kenyon Gabi was telling me a story about his cats when applause erupted throughout the club and drowned out his voice. The house lights dimmed, and I turned towards the stage....
View ArticleStrawberry Blizzards and the Holy Ghost
A short story by Brian Michael Barbeito The bottom of a pail is broken through. —Zen Saying We walked down those streets, and it had rained all day. The entire area had for a while afterwards been...
View ArticleDesign
Creative nonfiction by Sabrina Dalla Valle 6 am A gun shot, a scream of frustration, in that order—just before dawn. Tiny birds lift the sun by the tips of its rays from a place deep under the canyon....
View ArticleAll Good Things…
Since the Winter Solstice of 2005, we’ve had the honor of publishing work from writers who took risks, writers who bravely explored what lies beyond the conventional world experienced with the five...
View Article輸入車も中古で選ばれる時代。身近な生活のなかに取り入れる個性。
中古を避けられてきた輸入車 輸入車はどうしても遠い存在に見られがちです。輸入車の場合、パワーウインドウやセンサーといった電気系統だけでなく、ゴムや樹脂などのパーツの耐久性が低いという認識が根強いのも事実です。また、新車では日本車に比べて高価ということもあって、なかなか手が届かないというパターンもあるでしょう。そのようなことから輸入車は敬遠されがちでした。 日本製パーツで耐久性が飛躍的に向上...
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