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  • Idea for a Short Documentary Film [by Lydia Davis]

    November 13, 2020

    Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.                     from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (FSG 2009) from the archive; posted March  12, 2013

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  • “Witchy Ghazal” [by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade]

    November 13, 2020

    Samantha could make Darrin’s sandwichwithout using her hands. A skilled witch can wiggle her nose without touching it,snap her fingers to teleport to the Salem Witch Trials where her glorious foremothers were once burned for black magic.…

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  • Meat Loaf [by Mitch Sisskind]

    November 12, 2020

      He had been watching Meat Loaf videos Or rather he watched the same video  Again and again, the performance of Paradise by the Dashboard Light from  1979 or 1980 which was Meat Loaf's  Masterpiece…

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  • Frost and “the nothing that is” [by David Lehman]

    November 12, 2020

    I have long discerned connections between "The Snow Man" and the work of Robert Frost [pictured left receiving a medal of honor from President John F. Kennedy in 1962], an association that Frost's surname…

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  • PFC Hyman Ruby Horowitz

    November 11, 2020

    My dad, who served honorably in the US Army during WWII.  — Stacey Lehman

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  • Veteran’s Day (a poem for Mitch Sisskind) [by David Lehman]

    November 11, 2020

    On Veterans' Day let us remember the fallen, and honor them.It used to be Armistice Day.Now it is a three-day weekend, if that.As King David would have said: How the mighty have fallen. But…

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