WANTED TO BUY: Mercedes
300SL-Gullwing. For further
information, call 516-5…
Carmine DeSilva’s coffee cup covered the rest of the phone number, but the Long
Island area code caught his attention. He stared at the newspaper.
Reading the want ads had become a habit with him. It prolonged the morning ritual
of silence, the only time, he thought, Angela ever was silent. [...]
In April 2010, writer and blogger J.M. Tohline embarked on a creative experiment. Tohline’s website, a self-described forum for “thoughts on literature, life, and being awesome” displayed a new kind of post that reached out to his online community of readers. It read:
“This is a story called ‘The Storyteller.’ We’re all writing this story together. [...]
Editor’s Note: What follows is an excerpt from Speaking Truths, a forthcoming novel based, in part, on actual events. The trauma-filled world of Landon Starker, created by author Dayna Hester, has been lauded as a psychological case study and a plea to raise awareness about child abduction. The book is inspired by the humane work of [...]
Introduction
One month before his first birthday, Kyle Stronghold survived a ruthless twister that careened across the South and devastated the small, rural community of Castalian Springs, Tennessee. On that same fateful day, Kyle’s uninsured, single mother went from being a casualty of the broken welfare system to a freak accident statistic – a sorry, innocent [...]
Father Moran, our principal, was from Queens, so when the Mets won the World Series in 1969 we were excused from class and allowed to go into the cafeteria/auditorium to listen to the last few innings of the last game over the school PA system. I had already been following the game on my General [...]
When: September 19-24, 2010
Where: Northern Virginia, D.C., and Maryland
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