“…A chance meeting fulfills a mutual need…” Tap, tap, tap. Robert Mulligan mindlessly drums the window pane. The vibration tingles…

by Katie Poore I majored in English in college. This statement tends to get one of two reactions: the first…

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I…

It is not because I’m scared, nor pessimistic,…. nor have a coward’s heart,But, whenever I’m forced into a warI think…

by Charlie Huenemann It is commonplace to observe just how marvelous books are. Some person, perhaps from long ago, makes…

Revisiting Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast a couple of decades after I read it last, I notice a few things…

It was Adolphe Sax, remember,not Saxo Grammaticus, who gets the ovation.And by the time he had brought all the componentstogether–the…