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Garibous of God

by Stephen Davies

[ march 04 ]

"Their high voices carry clear and far on the still night air. They do not understand Arabic, but they can read and write it, and that is enough to get by on."

Options

by Stephen Davies

[ february 04 ]

"'Where would you put sporadically?' says Carlos, raking a hand through his thinning hair. '"Before or after occasionally?'"

Seven rays

by Stephen Davies

[ december 03 ]

According to Burkino Faso's semi-nomadic Fulani people, only one of the Sun's seven rays has shone since Creation, but one day...

A lion's share

by Joe Palmer

[ december 03 ]

"A telecommunications center, formerly aboard the USS Mt Whitney, was established at La Meunière, with 800 Marines on stand-by to counter terrorism in Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Yemen. At long last, Djibouti has a source of income."

Why I never walk through a Chinese park during Spring Festival

by Tom Bradley

[ october 03 ]

"The civic authorities have drained the artificial lake, and thousands of handcarts are purging the bed of five centuries' accumulation of mucus, slopping it everywhere ankle-deep."

The octopus men

by Damien Enright

[ october 03 ]

The hunter hunted...

Thesmophoria, not Euphoria

by Joe Palmer

[ september 03 ]

From an epithet of Demeter, the earth-goddess [Thesmo-]: casting pigs into chasms, and mixing their decaying flesh with earth to insure fertility.

Looking for Abercorn

by Joe Palmer

[ september 03 ]

"They say there are six degrees of separation between any two people - and that is true if you look only at the people between us. If you look also at the lines and dots and spaces around us, you find cords of a thousand knots."

Brahe's bladder & Mozart's murder

by Brian Kimberling

[ september 03 ]

The deaths of two of Prague's foreign sons continue to fascinate: "It is as if the governing forces of Brahe's shifting cosmos had eradicated a superlative man by something less than chance or design."

A funeral In Bangkok

by Joe Palmer

[ july 03 ]

"'Yes, whatever happen. And since whatever happen was not meant to be, there is no Fate.' Dean Charoon smiled at his own attempt to argue in a way I understood."