nthposition online magazine

Perpetual motion

by Seamus Sweeney

[ fiction - september 10 ]

"Life is very simple if you just follow the instructions. Or rather, life can proceed very simply if you just follow the instructions. There's a difference."

A film too far: The Battle of Hormuz Strait

by Jim Chaffee

[ politics | opinion - september 10 ]

A reflection on American foreign policy truthiness

Julia

by Harry Reynolds

[ people - september 10 ]

A Ruthenian story

Excerpt (from a narrative in progress)

by Gregory Vincent St Thomasino

[ fiction - september 10 ]

"Would those school kids have a clue what I was up to? Probably they would think me a fool. And besides, then we'd be stuck with a bunny."

Hitler's spirit lives

by Joe Palmer

[ opinion - september 10 ]

...and the Know-Nothing Party is back

Heard on the road in South Africa

by Ron Singer

[ places - september 10 ]

"What's the difference between a black and a white cricket? The black ones are noisier." (Are there really white crickets?)

Off campus

by George Sparling

[ fiction - september 10 ]

"I must have smelled horrible because she gagged a few times. Rare steaks don't smell like Henrietta's blood."

Shot at the title

by Billy O'Callaghan

[ fiction - september 10 ]

"It's who you are meant to be that counts. And I'm prepared to bet a baby seal against a bag of parsnips that people like to stare at you, mister"

vijayanagar

by Janice Pariat

[ poetry - september 10 ]

Like swimmers at a beach club

by David Lawrence

[ poetry - september 10 ]

Thread and needles & Esopus

by Ana Silva

[ poetry - september 10 ]

Music box III

by Christine Herzer

[ poetry - september 10 ]

cygnes/sambowls

by George Vance

[ poetry - september 10 ]

Recommended reading

My temporary son

by Timeri N Murari

[ people - february 05 ]

An orphan's tale.

The waxwing slain

by Seamus Sweeney

[ fiction - april 04 ]

"The history of literature - the movements filled with lofty ideas, the endless manifestos and counter-manifestos, the all-too-serious sense of mission - can be considered a history of envy."

The Rough Guide to yodel

review by Ian Simmons

[ cdreviews ]

For fans of sarcastic yodelling everywhere.