The Dear Jane Letter by Steve Cooke When Death’s dry whisper hollered for my wife And almost sixty years of love was gone, I was alone, with none to share my life. The house now rang with silent cinnamon. My soul was stalled, until that day my phone Was jarred awake with tidings in your […]
Podcast The Pub 19: Video Games and Story (or I’m Ridin’ around on a Giant Bumblebee!)
Video Games and Story Join us for a podcast on video games and story, during which we hold a public World of Warcraft intervention for Sarah, Molly tells us just how much she likes Fire Emblem: Three Houses (hint: it’s a lot more than a lot), and Dean admits to his Care Bear ways in […]
Fiction: Palm Springs
Palm Springs is a pastel city. Everything in it has a tint of gray, its buildings, its furniture, the clothes worn by its people, and most of all, in their sexual proclivities-ambiguity. So, when they found Stoddard Wells dead, splayed out in a sterile alley near a large potted plant, in his only suit, wearing […]
Poetry: On Finding God
On Finding God by Diana Sher On Christmas Eve, I brought two 9 X 13 Containers Of coleslaw and macaroni salad To my synagogue To feed four homeless families We were sheltering for the week. Before dinner we said a prayer I took the hand Of a young black woman And gently squeezed. When […]