Inside California Prisons “In the Matrix” Terrance Steele Terrance and his daughter Sarya Steele Excerpt from “In the Matrix”: “I became anxious.  I knew I had to maintain my bravado; if not, I would lose respect from my friends and foes alike and be preyed upon, as fast as a […]

  ___________________________      EDINBURGH: CITY OF FESTIVALS MICHAEL BLAHA Excerpt from “The Edinburgh Fringe Festival:” I’m walking east down the Royal Mile towards my favorite Indian restaurant off South Bridge, Mother India, when I am accosted by a very large hairy man in a pink tutu, who thrusts a […]

  SUZANNE LUMMIS     ________________________________________    The Poem Noir  Too Dark to be Depressed Excerpt from “The Poem Noir: Too Dark to be Depressed” What is it, the poem noir? To understand, one must know what film noir is and, happily (if “happily” has a place here), many people know a […]