If Jesus was a cowboyHe’d wear a crumpled hatan’ jeans an’ boots an’ sometimesa worn-out pair of...
Creative Writing
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Until I was on crutches, I’d never paid attention to the fact that Oxford’s two best bars...
Late Fall by Doll Russell I sink into darkness around the time of fallMy body responds with...
My grandfather—Grandy to me, my sisters, and our cousins; Lester Jones to the world—was not a religious...
“A change is coming.” Vicky sang that blues song all day, “A change is coming, but I...
With the stellar cooperation of Mother Nature, this year’s Double Decker Arts Festival was a resounding success....
I took some criticism for this bit of travelogue. Not for participating–after all, the Meat Man was...
Some two decades after first hiding in a bedroom closet in the middle of the day when some...
In the 1962 movie Kid Galahad, Elvis Presley belted it out like so. “A poor man wants the...
“Their agate eyes opened to reflect a pinpoint of dazzle, closed again…” The description of the...
“ …we didn’t have no place to go, so we just walked around and lived in them...
Confusion (For Lindsey) I don’t deserve this punishment But there is no escape I used to bounce...
Diane was turning thirty in August and she wanted her birthday party to be all pink. She...
This story originally appeared in The Local Voice #208. To download a PDF of this issue, click...
This article originally appeared in The Local Voice #207. To download a PDF of this issue, click...
The afternoon had been long, impeded by discoveries of even more cracks to caulk, more questions to...