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The Invention of Time: Reflections on the New Year 2025
Read more: The Invention of Time: Reflections on the New Year 2025What is this new year? What has changed?– I have frequently asked myself, staring into a sky lightened up by colourful lights at midnight 1st January. There is champagne, partying, playing board games, concerts and films on TV. Change is in the air; politicians make promises of a better economy, cooperation and security; individuals make…
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Country Music: the Peaks and Valleys of Small-Town-Problems
Read more: Country Music: the Peaks and Valleys of Small-Town-ProblemsBetty Boots on Music Row, by Tim Bagwell With 2024 fading into the brown-backroad-haze of our collective rearview-mirror, smudged further by the revved up dirt of an already historically tumultuous January, it becomes possible to view the year as a whole and begin to guess at its role in history. The year of war and…
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Unit 29 Writes Back
by Lhya MuniveRead more: Unit 29 Writes BackTW: Depression, death, suicide When the director of Mississippi Prison Writing Louis Bourgeois contacted our magazine for possible coverage of Unit 29: Writing from Parchman Prison, a collection of personal vignettes and poems written by men incarcerated at Mississippi State Penitentiary, we were beyond honoured to take upon his request. I had been somewhat aware…
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All the People in the World
Read more: All the People in the WorldDuring the time of coming back home for the holidays, a lot of us had to catch flights to return to our home countries. Interestingly enough, an Airbus plane has the regular capacity to transport 525 seated passengers. I, personally, have never travelled on an empty plane, and it makes sense, since flights only have…
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Flash Fiction Competition 2023 – Second Place: Report A27 on There Are Three Rules for Walking Through the Woods
Read more: Flash Fiction Competition 2023 – Second Place: Report A27 on There Are Three Rules for Walking Through the WoodsFight between a Tiger and a Buffalo, by Henri Rousseau Report to be circulated among sergeants, staff-sergeants, and first-lieutenants of the Root-513 Subcommittee. It is generally believed to have started somewhere a little west of Cincinnati. Several researchers have gone on the record stating it emanated from a diner called ‘Barleycorn’s Cold Spring Restaurant’ located…
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