Upper Left Edge

My Ballot Choices for May 21 Special Election

Rabbi Bob — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:42:12 +0000

It's really hard to believe that, here in the 21st century, we still vote by filling in dots on a piece of heavy paper. Remember to use a pen (blue or black ink only), and of course your vote won't count if you either don't fill in the oval completely, or G-d forbid, go outside the line!

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The Upper Right Edge

Kathryn — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:13:51 +0000

There are some parts of the world Where writing begins at the upper right edge For those who know how to write.

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My Poetry Refuses Words Today

shriya — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:51:22 +0000

We meet only in the humming of the wind in my ears the smell of winter fog and the contours of a face, ever changing with my changing thoughts. My poetry refuses words today. [Read More]

Doorway

annie oconnor — Sat, 04 May 2013 02:18:15 +0000

Hello how are you do I really care The language changes but the question's still there Spare a quarter, a dime a minute of your time Have you ever hung a sign degrading what little is left of your mind [Read More]

Get Lit at the Beach, Cannon Beach

Vera Haddan — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:28:30 +0000

Gathering, surrounded by, story writers, story tellers and story readers is like bathing in lavender salts — lingering into contentment, absorbing a lifestyle, humming. [Read More]

The Burial Ground, After the Battle

Margaret Hammitt-McDonald — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:39:24 +0000

The dead are lined up according to size and type, as neatly arranged as clothing in a drawer, records on a shelf, bullets in a chamber. A quiescent machine waits to lift them, its steel mouth clamping one, nipping at mossy skin and flaccid lichens. [Read More]

Iron-clad Memories

Brian Johnstone — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:20:20 +0000

I was working in a fairly large Engineering office in Portland when Thatcher was first elected in 1979. The Vice-President walked over to my drafting station with the chuckling remark –“Hey Scotty, I see you’ve finally got a good, REPUBLICAN prime Minister”! I’ll spare you my curt and expletive-laced response but use yer imaginations. [Read More]

Little and Big: a story about a town

Ursula K. Le Guin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:20:38 +0000

Once upon a time there was a little town by a big ocean. It was a wise little town. Long ago it had looked at its dunes and beaches, its big trees, its marsh where the red-wing blackbirds sang, its little streets and little grey shingle shops and houses, and said: This is all good. [Read More]

America is in Moral Decline

Mike Carter — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:48:24 +0000

If we are to truly measure morality, then we need to look at what we prize as a society. How do we spend our free time? What is our treasure? What motivates us? What do we value the most? The answer isn’t very far away--it’s in our driveways, in the corners of our living rooms, in our hands, our ears and our pockets. It is money and everything money can buy. [Read More]

As society evolves, it becomes more moral

Don Anderson — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:37:07 +0000

Some of my conservative friends that I’ve talked to recently think that America in particular and the world in general is in a moral decline. It is common for them to compare America with ancient Rome. “We’re heading the same way as Constantine,” a Republican colleague said to me a few weeks ago. [Read More]