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  • Three Little Words
    March 21, 2023
    Starting with my dad, people have been telling me to Stand Up Straight all my life. He told me. The Army told me. My friends…
  • The Other Way from You
    March 21, 2023
    I’d been told that some former Colorado Springs poets laureate were going to read at the old Knights of Columbus hall. Some of them were…
  • Affected
    March 16, 2023
    SCENE I Dell is returning from a business trip and is shown tiredly walking to her car at Reagan National airport. She fumbles for her…
  • Bloodstream
    March 14, 2023
    Karen was down to 100 pounds. She wore long sleeve shirts to work to hide the marks on her arms. It had gotten so bad that…
  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Unjust Imprisonment of Channen Smith
    March 13, 2023
    At about 2 a.m. Saturday morning, October 23, 2010, outside the residence of Brandon Savage (street name "Ghostface") at 1843 North Harvard Avenue in Tulsa,…
  • Man next to lifesaver
    D-Day, 1944: A Black Veteran Remembers
    February 15, 2023
    We have lost one more World War II veteran. Richard L. Walker, born May 7, 1924, passed away on October…
  • Dirt road crossing
    Recovery
    February 15, 2023
    I wanted to return to some imaginary lifebased on a collection of unstable memories I thought were real.I would gaze…
  • Desert Snow
    February 15, 2023
    Charlie Peterson looked at his watch and then at the departure board of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. Another 45 minutes he thought…
  • Army soldiers on the field with helicopters
    War All the Time
    February 15, 2023
    “It was the English,” Kaspar cried,“Who put the French to rout;But what they fought each other for,I could not well…
  • Peeking through to a dirt covered road
    Girls in the Alley
    February 15, 2023
    We hit the town fast and hard,  just as we have done before, just as we will do again. Fly…
  • Man with dog sitting on his lap
    Physical Wellness: The Key to Mental Well-Being
    February 15, 2023
    I have suffered many losses in my life, but losing my vision has been the hardest by far. The initial…

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