Why Are You Still Afraid
“But then if you’re so smart, tell me, why are you still so afraid?”
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Edward Tenner Quote – Going Very Wrong
“Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.” – Edward Tenner
Read morePoem – She Climaxed (By Agbaakin O. Jeremiah)
She Climaxed she starts with a song. suddenly, a dirge too limp with grief, like the skies in Pompeii. it’s killed the birds in my heart, ships stagger like a drunk, into the white-blush of maddened waves. the earth popped open as an old wine bursts froth; like a hungry lioness she opened her jaws separating families with […]
Read moreCartoon – Expectations of Therapy
Short Story – The Better to See You With (By Midu Hadi)
The Better to See You With By Midu Hadi Chapter 1 The ophthalmologist plucked the nictitating membrane off the petri dish with a pair of forceps. Syd moved it around a bit until she found the right place for it in Jab’s right eye. A few days before this surgery, Jab’s plica semilunaris had been removed. Jab had […]
Read moreCartoon – Business As Usual
Poem – At Midnight in New York (By Donal Mahoney)
At Midnight in New York It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin and it hurts. Olga’s upstairs in bed with cancer terminal and it hurts. Melvin’s downstairs in bed snoring. Nothing hurts because he doesn’t know yet he has multiple sclerosis. In the hallway a thief goes floor […]
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr. Quote – People Fail To Get Along
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Read moreFloating Laboratory Will Explore ‘Final Frontier’ of Polar Regions
A huge research ship costing £200 million has been commissioned, which will probe the oceans and climate of the arctic and Antarctic. They are the cruel seas where Britain’s greatest adventurers made their names. Now the territory of Scott and Shackleton, will be surveyed by a new generation of British explorers who will tackle the ‘final frontier’ of Earth’s […]
Read moreCartoon – Bus Stop
