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Paul Laurence Dunbar, Beyond the Mask

Paul Laurence Dunbar, Beyond the Mask, written and directed by Frederick Lewis He sang of love when earth was young, / And love itself was in its laze, ...
On March 17, 2019 / By Chris Hartman
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An Odyssey

Day like rain, a cast iron crow Furling its wings in thin emptiness My heavy body holds the wound Deep inside black iron cloud Raining down when the ...
On February 7, 2019 / By Kazim Ali
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1-800-HOT-CHAT

It’s such a dumb thing small thing. Right? I’m on the phone faking this guy out. Maybe some regular. He can’t know that I pick toe jam out ...
On February 5, 2019 / By Jennifer Jean
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Wake-Up Call

What does it take to represent voters? Jeanne Dietsch takes us into the unglamorous, necessary work of democracy, of a candidate for local office knocking on doors, ...
On February 5, 2019 / By Jeanne Dietsch
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Henry and Ralph

To open separate window, click button on upper right of display Image: “Beauty of Twilight ” by Eddi van W. , licensed under CC 2.0 ...
On January 12, 2019 / By Regie Gibson
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You Had Me at Beheading!
The Author of “Against Football” Responds to Selected Hate Mail

To open separate window, click button on upper right of display Copyright @ 2015 by Steve Almond. First published in The Rumpus, December 1, 2015. Reprinted with permission ...
On January 12, 2019 / By Steve Almond

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An Odyssey

Day like rain, a cast iron crow Furling its wings in thin emptiness My heavy body holds the wound Deep inside black iron cloud Raining down when the ...
On February 7, 2019 / By Kazim Ali
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1-800-HOT-CHAT

It’s such a dumb thing small thing. Right? I’m on the phone faking this guy out. Maybe some regular. He can’t know that I pick toe jam out ...
On February 5, 2019 / By Jennifer Jean
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Henry and Ralph

To open separate window, click button on upper right of display Image: “Beauty of Twilight ” by Eddi van W. , licensed under CC 2.0 ...
On January 12, 2019 / By Regie Gibson

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An Awesome Gap

Around the corner, the lot opened up and the asphalt smoothed out. The rough patches disappeared and Patrick glided along, gaining speed as he headed for a concrete ...
On October 7, 2018 / By Virginia Pye
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The Asshole

He was not a very good person. He was, by many accounts, vile, impolite, crude, inappropriate, ignorant, insensitive, and offensive. He was a gifted asshole, a precocious prick, ...
On September 28, 2018 / By Vincent Yu
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Eyewitness

The eyewitness entered. He had no eyes. Unsteadily he made his way through the courtroom, groping the air with his hands. Blood ran from his eye-sockets, blood so ...
On August 2, 2018 / By Seno Gumira Ajidarma

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You Had Me at Beheading!
The Author of “Against Football” Responds to Selected Hate Mail

To open separate window, click button on upper right of display Copyright @ 2015 by Steve Almond. First published in The Rumpus, December 1, 2015. Reprinted with permission ...
On January 12, 2019 / By Steve Almond
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The War on Pagans

It’s the time of year for the “War on Christmas”. The war, supposedly a slight against Christianity, was most recently inspired by a book written by John Gibson ...
On December 22, 2018 / By S. Schirl Smith
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Learning Hungarian

Roza, my four-year-old daughter, is patient with me as I struggle to understand her. She doesn’t know it, but I’m in awe of the complexity of her sentences ...
On September 20, 2018 / By Thomas Carothers