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Yiannis

by Kenneth M. Kapp                        Avrum couldn’t remember his own name. In truth, he’d forced himself to forget his name a long time ago: months, years, centuries ago. He laughed once, recalling that one year in a dog’s life is like seven of ours. “Ha, then I’m living one dog’s life for my mother,” and […]

The Legend of  Yellow Boots

by Raayan “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” [Sir Edmond Hillary]   15th May 2021, 13:30 Hrs, at about 8,300 m altitude on the Northern ascent route of Mt Everest  Norbu, a 39 year old seasoned Sherpa who had conquered Everest’s perilous slopes quite a few times, was now facing a blizzard […]

That Little Purple Pill

by Douglas Young      The thought of somehow struggling out of bed felt like a baby being expelled from a blissfully warm womb into a cold, merciless world. The twenty-five-year-old had battled depression since age thirteen, but had recently felt better dating her best beau since high school. That made his breaking up with her […]

The Note Inside the Nook

by Jonathan Ferrini “On behalf of the management and staff of the Lookout Lounge high atop the Grand Dame hotel of the beautiful ‘City by the Bay’, we welcome you to our New Year Celebration welcoming in 1942. “We’re joined by the Xavier Cugat Orchestra whose musicians of magic are finely tuning their instruments in […]

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