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steven-belanger's picture
May.06.2013
Photo: Bellevue Hospital Ambulance, New York Times, 1895--from the Wikipedia page of The Alienist.   Been a few weeks away with illness, exhaustion, overwork, and some good headway on my novel and some shorter pieces.  Sort of an odd time lately, mostly without focus.  I've been...
steven-belanger's picture
Sep.09.2012
Photo: Not Dr. Redhead.  A redhead from everydayhealth.com   So I'm at the emergency room the other day, never mind when--and, actually, I'd been there two days before that, too, but I needed to go back for more bloodwork--and despite bringing two books with me, I was captivated by...
allan-james-cox's picture
Dec.25.2009
What if she didn't know- Mary-that her newborn was special? What if this peasant girl thought the stable just went with her position, the way of the world? What did she make of this precocious lad confounding the learned in the temple? She got used to some of his ways. She turned to him for a...
larry-schliessmann's picture
Dec.09.2009
Marlowe Black is my outrage, my anguish, but wasn't meant to be. I have read that a writer's protagonists and, too, his antagonists, are all facets of the writer's personality. While I willingly accept the former, I stand in clear denial of the latter. The internet age had become a living entity,...
alan-black's picture
May.29.2009
This is a particularly unpleasant submission, so don't read it if you've been a victim of unwanted fondling.  Airports are strip searching passengers with a new screening device designed to have the bored guy at the monitor burst out laughing when he sees a tiny penis, a weird third nipple, or...