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Sox Ransom by Tom Sheehan
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When Dwight Dewey Plavic
was finally released from Walpole Correctional Facility, after
serving seven years for a crime he did not commit, he had a bitterness
that wouldn't let go. What plagued him most was during all of
October and much of November of 2004 he had served time without
a single damned privilege in a stripped-down cell of the prison.
They barely fed him, he would say to anybody who would listen. |
Riding
Free by J. B. Hogan
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As long as the boy could remember
he had dreamed of being free. He knew there were greater things
beyond his little street - exciting things. He didn't have a
name for these things, but he knew they were there and he wanted
to experience them. So he worked after school and on weekends,
collecting nickels and dimes. Finally he had enough. |
Chairman
Chiang's Smile by Chen-ou
Liu
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Six decades ago, there was
a civil war in China. The ruling Kuomintang (the Chinese Nationalist
Party) was defeated by the Chinese Communist Party. Chairman
Chiang Kai-shek led his defeated troops and retreated to Taiwan
as a strategic move to recover his forces and then retake mainland
China in, what was hoped, a short time. My father was a first
lieutenant in Chiang's military troops, and, like the majority
of mainland Chinese in Taiwan, shared with him this same illusion. |
Grip by Mike Shannon
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Everywhere, trees. Ominous
and statuesque, even amidst the blackness. Spiraling towards
an endless blanket of sky, dark and distant, starless. Encompassing.
Monster-like trees in the dark, watching, always there. |
- Scarred by Kevin Brown
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The note is from before there
was email. Back during high bangs and power ballads. She found
it in a shoebox of her old things. It was the only note he ever
wrote her. Yellowing and worn along the folds, she spreads it
flat, running her finger over the words scribbled in pencil. |
Non-Fiction
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Flannel Hash by Laudizen
King
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The year was 1973, I was camping
with a friend on the eastern side of the Kancamaugus Highway
in the late spring and we had planned a week around climbing
the trails on Mt Chocorua in the southern White Mountains. I
was 23 years of age and had made my first visit to New Hampshire
the previous year. |
A
Dreamt Preface for a Reading at Nahant Library
by
Tom Sheehan
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When asked to read to celebrate
my new book of memoirs, I wanted to let the audience enter the
cubicle where the work came from. This is what I told them: |
Book Review
- Author:
Michael Hathaway reviewed
by Harry Calhoun
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The poems in these volumes
are often spiritual, sometimes confessional. Most are trim and
terse in the style of some of my other favorite poets such as
Christopher Cunningham and Hosho McCreesh. There is also a smattering
of short fiction and essays in these pages. Michael's gayness,
his family and friends and life in the Bible Belt are all dealt
with with honesty, candor and sometimes humor. |
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