I presented it as a joke, and by all accounts a poor one.
She sat on the couch by the window in the main building of the residency flipping through a book of paintings. The red building by the river …
We were excited. John and Laura, our first friends here in our new hometown invited us to take a drive to see land they owned outside Idaho City, and we were going by ourselves. We argued over what time to …
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A room of suitcases and packing boxes, rucksacks full to bursting, Bags for …
They joked about it all the time now. Well for the last couple of years anyway since it suddenly dawned on them that they were both old now and soon would be dead. Joking about it was their way of …
Ladies lunching, another round later, forgetting the kids at school.
Susan Sarver is a writer and painter. She completed an MFA in creative writing and subsequently wrote a book, Returning to College, Continuing to Learn, After 50, (New Forums …
I was chewing gum. It couldn’t have happened otherwise. A swirling autumnal breeze, a coincidence of the right conditions. I opened my mouth at just that moment. I sucked in a leaf. Not a big leaf, but a whole leaf. Not …
It is -30°F, and a transcendental winter sun pauses briefly on the horizon. Fred and I are tracking polar bears near Barrow, more than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Alone and almost invisible in our cream-colored 4-wheel-drive Toyota, …
The recovered flight data recorder has sat on the shelf in my office for several weeks. I am usually quite diligent in my duties and proud of my timeliness, but this is a part of my job that I detest. …
Do not touch me. I am ice. I will melt.
Ann Christine Tabaka was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize in Poetry, has been internationally published, and won poetry awards from numerous publications. She is the author of 9 poetry books. …
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Elizabeth has been writing for four years. She self-published her autobiography ‘Nursing in the 60’s’ with great success. …