Ronnie is an elderly man dealing with the hardships of diabetes, weakening eyes, and worst of all dementia. He is not a person that stands out to most, and that's just the way he wants it. Because when it comes...
Not every Novice becomes a Submissionette, but the histories of those who fail often go unwritten. They are discarded, forgotten. One can serve more than lords, however; and there are men in the city who realise...
A Short Story - She'd always been a beauty, no longer young, but always lovely to him, and had it not been for the faith she'd had in him all these years, he would surely have given up hope of ever finding his...
Eddy's get-rich football betting scheme has yet to pay off, so in the meantime, he continues to endure the grind of daily life. Luckily, he fancies himself an American looking at America, studying the masses....
"Reality is stranger than fiction. Who wants to waste their time writing about elves and dragons, when there are enough fantastic and diabolical entities and events all around us here in the real world. The...
Forensic rhetoric is the study of "what did or did not happen." Forensic rhetoric is therefore closely connected to the analysis of narration. Methods for proving "narrative truth" can be applied to the case...
Daniel McAlister must die. That's the way it is. Status quo: cold war. Humans kill witches, witches kill humans. There's nothing special about the boy. He's merely the next victim. There's nothing special about...
Ambition, intrigue, betrayal, murder. In 1610 The Tragedy of Macbeth was first performed . . . now 400 years later, the sequel. Ten years dead, Macbeth may lie in an uneasy grave, but the three witches who led...
Originally published by Selkirk Lapwing Press in 2007, Andy Hopkins' acclaimed poetry collection, Dark Horse Pictures, is a deep, dark labyrinth of language.
I hope you will enjoy this excerpt from my enovel. For more excerpts or to purchase the entire ebook, visit: www.stanfordfriedman.com It is the story of Scott, an egocentric New Yorker, and his attempt to complete...
Engaging writer's first day on the job at James Patterson, Inc. He wants to make a good impression but it's not going to be as easy as he thought. If only he didn't...
After the Balkan war many Bosnian refugees ended up in Scandinavia. In [Refuge]e, we can eavesdrop on and witness the quirky characters that came out as the result of the war. Focusing on Bosnian women and their...
Dysfunctional suburbs. Dark thoughts. Crumbling relationships. Or in other words, just another day in the twisted world of author Ben Tanzer. The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography is proud to present...
If Milton's Paradise Lost was written to justify the ways of God to man, then the much much more modest aim of Gulls & Chuffs is to reveal (though most definitely not justify) something of the ways of men to...
Join Jason Pettus, executive director of the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (cclapcenter.com), as he takes an informed yet irreverent look at the subject of "literary classics," reading for the...