ISSUE 28

  • John Sainsbury

    John Sainsbury

     

    Lord Rochester is Dying:  A Comedy

    (being a cont. serialisation)

    Act 2 Scene 1

    Great Hall, Woodstock Lodge (near Oxford), the Rochester country estate.

    ANNE WILMOT, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF ROCHESTER: I have a letter, post haste, from Baptiste. They … Read the whole text

  • Lorette C Luzajic

    Lorette C Luzajic

     

    The Sunflower King 

    (after The Roses of Heliogabalus, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema [Engand, b. Netherlands] 1888 )

    The slave girl dipped her slim fingers into the white unguent and spread it around the bruises rimming the boy’s eyes. He … Read the whole text

  • Rudy Kremberg

    Rudy Kremberg

     

    Golden Ears 

    Jonah stared at the leather recliner and imagined she was still sitting there, listening to the Urlicht movement of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, her eyes closed, a shock of reddish brown hair tucked behind each ear. He pictured … Read the whole text

  • Uche Peter Umezurike

    Uche Peter Umezurike

    My father loves in a practical way

     
    My father loves the way only an ex-soldier can.
    He loves with things handy and familiar.
    Like steel or fist.

    My father is practical.
    The way his belts love my behind.
    The … Read the whole text