Shoemaker At Work is a painting by Farideh Haghshenas Renaldo was a cobbler by trade, just like his father before him and his father before him. Renaldo had lived in the same town as his forbears. He went about his daily activities with a certain comfort. There was a dearth of surprises in Renaldo’s life,…
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Justice for the Fookers (long)
image link It was the 50th anniversary of the day the Governor of Whosville, Foul Fooker, gave the order to the State troops to fire randomly into protesting students and other students walking on the campus of Higher Ed U. Myra Madison, age 70, lost her sister, Nancy, that day. Nancy was leaving her honors…
The God of Bubblegum Mountain
image link He told me God lived on Bubblegum Mountains, the strawberry peaks that greeted the sun first each morning in the summer. Naive I was but I had a few questions for The Almighty so I set off across meadows filled with flowers and grains, streams with boulders and crawdads, then across a sweltering…
I Believe in Bernie
“Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!,” chanted the crowd. Bernie Sanders had just been declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election in the United States. Two months earlier, the former POTUS had been impeached and then tried and convicted for a stream of federal crimes that lead to his being put on ice at Sing-Sing until…
Monochrome No More
“Canoe on the Lake,” by Netta Everything in Mandy’s house was green. The day she came across the raspberry sherbet-colored silkscreen print of the canoe, she was thrown into a tailspin. Should she go against her obsessive compulsion to have green everything and buy the print? Over the next two days, Mandy checked ebay six…
Night of the Rat
image link New Orleans is known for its strange goings-about, and as you know, many a tall-tale contains a grain of truth. They say back in the days of rum running and pirate jaunts, a strange ship came in on the mist one night. Madame DeSwain, whose inn near the docks greeted gamblers, sailors, and…
Daddy and the talkies
Daddy told me when he was my age, he loved to go to the cinema. It was in the days before television, when it was the only place to see the talkies. Although I have always thought of my father as possessing honesty, he told me his family was so poor, he used to have…
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