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Contempt – February 2019
Contempt By Robert Bruce Drynan Closed Senate Hearing- Armed Services Committee “For the record, will you please state your name and present occupation?” “Lt. Coronel JoAnne Rae Hazlet, United States Army. I have recently returned from Iraq and I have received orders to report to the Military Police Training Command at Fort Leonard
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Trading Paper Back Novels – January 2019
Trading Paper Back Novels By Fernando Garcia I caught the #9 bus down the hill from University of San Diego High School. Our all boys Catholic school was two bus rides from home. The #9 took me to the plaza downtown where I would transfer to the #11 bus which in turn left me
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And I Never Saw Him Again – December 2018
And I Never Saw Him Again By Kenneth Hunt One day – it must have been a Friday – the Old Man comes home from work driving a jeep. A jeep! How cool is that! We didn’t have a car. He took me for a ride! He says it belongs to a friend at
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Mother’s Visit – November 2018
Mother’s Visit By Bob Branson I was soaking in my hot tub after a long tennis match when the phone rang. “Robert Keith, this is your cousin Elizabeth. I’m calling from your folks’ house in Shawnee.” She lowered her voice. “Do you have any idea how they’re doing?” “They seem to be
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The Quest for the Elusive Mung Beans – October 2018
The Quest for the Elusive Mung Beans (A Visit to Abastos) By Chuck Bolotin Like an aspiring knight in a medieval fairytale who had been told to bring back the egg of a fire-breathing dragon or a nascent American Indian brave who had been given the task of producing a specific feather from a
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The Boy In The Hammock – September 2018
The Boy In The Hammock By Julie Galosy I had gone to the Amazon only to meet with a witch doctor to accompany him on his herb-finding soirees into the rain forest. It turned out that destiny had a very different mission for me. My guide and I had just attended a ferocious football
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Idiotic Idioms – August 2018
IDIOTIC IDIOMS By Tom Nussbaum Carlos Ignacio Julio Rodriguez de Soto ambled toward a popular Ajijic coffee shop. A cautious, self-consciousness permeated his gait.He spotted an unoccupied table amidst several tables of English-speaking customers and sat. In a smooth continuous move, he slung his backpack off his shoulder and onto the table. He unzipped
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Double-Take – July 2018
Ed. Note: In February 2003, the author visited pre-war Iraq with a women’s delegation. She returned in July 2003, twelve weeks after the U.S.-led invasion, to find the fate of the Iraqis who had touched her so deeply. This is a chapter from her in-progress journalistic memoir. Double-Take By Kelly Hayes-Raitt “Soura” is one
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Cucumber – June 2018
Cucumber By Judy Dykstra-Brown Luckily, my husband had been made weak by his mother and so had little interest in what I was doing or how I had obtained the money to do so. He sat in the shade as he has sat for all of the years we have been married and occasionally
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