cold down hometown lane moth pulled to the beacon blue thick siren wail of death’s ghastly debut cruel spiteful pother masked sight of the wrecking ball that snuffed my young friends flavian candle crushed sanguinary grisly mound flecked with scarlet dew which grim grey blanket can’t hide from my view chill wires bind my legs [...]
Lisa Binion, BellaOnline’s Fiction Writing Editor–My Interview with Paul Collins, author of Mack Dunstan’s Inferno. –Part One– Paul Collins, author of Mystery of Everyman’s Way and Mack Dunstan’s Inferno, agreed to answer some questions for me. With his permission, I share both the questions and answers with you. I am curious, after the review I [...]
Remembering the crazy day of Thanksgiving in my family missing it, Mom and the masses in the kitchen football in the living room, all my Uncles placing $25 bets on who will win and conversation, setting up of Lenox silver, so that all have a place in Mother’s home, no matter who showed up there [...]
I am the Lemonman and I want to tell you about my day. It started out as any ordinary day. Called my two friends Miss Strawberry and Mr. Celery and we were going to have a cool picnic in the park. But, alas my plans went astray as I was lead astray too. Please listen [...]
Gerry McCullough, author of “Belfast Girls” and “Danger Danger” believes the most important thing in good prose writing is clarity. She credits a quote from George Orwell for reminding her that good prose is like a window pane. She says, “I strongly dislike writing which is complicated, pretentious, and hard to follow.” I’ve tried in [...]
We are ten years away from a single world currency and one world laws-its globalism and we can’t stop it. There are a lot of powerful people who made a lot of blood money off America’s War on Terror and they would fear one world laws because such a system would put them in the [...]
take a walk in the light between your eyes see the tree swaying take a drink from the bubbles of the sea hear the roar the lion taste the buds as they unfold from the nectars like life in infancy hear the sound the rumble of the earth whispering desert haze touch your face feel [...]
The tragic deaths of her mother and two younger siblings have left Grace Harmon responsible for raising her sister Miriam and protecting her from their abusive father, Luther, a zealot preacher with a penchant for speaking in Biblical verse who is on a downward spiral toward insanity.
Music plays on and on,
magic lights flash
from a merry-go-round.
Sounds of laughter
in a street; a little
girl crosses her feet.
Have you noticed that you and your friends each have a different growth-process? Suddenly you are Rachel’s best girlfriend, while you used to be inseparable with Sheila just a week ago. Or perhaps you girlfriend Amanda got a boob job and now gets all the attention from the boys, whereas you’re still waiting for something [...]
