Books
- THE BOOK REPORT: Bookshelves of Memories
- I spend most of my day recommending books to people. I often wonder what happens to those books as they pass through the doors of the store. Do they get read or ignored? Do the readers end up loving the books or do they think of them as a waste of... Full story
- THE BOOK REPORT: Solzhenitsyn’s Truth
- As a child I can remember being terrified of nuclear war. I was confident that every plane that flew over was a bomber sent to deliver a gruesome payload and end my life before I reached puberty. And a plane so terrible could only be from one place.... Full story
- THE BOOK REPORT: The other side of history
- George Custer was the son of an Ohio blacksmith, poor and without much hope of ever becoming a world-recognized name. With the intense desire to make something of himself, he decided to become a lawyer. His family, however, lacked the means to... Full story
- 'Move Over Mike Dover' by Brent Kerrigan
- FESTIVA'S CREATIVE WRITING ISSUE 2009
- The sun settles behind the green grandstand, bathing the fairgrounds in a golden glow that gives even the cheapest and dirtiest of rides twenty minutes of respectability. Carnival barkers pull their hats over their eyes and gaze into a crowd that... Full story
- 'Nolan County Banshee' by Brandon R. Garcia
- FESTIVA'S CREATIVE WRITING ISSUE 2009
- Dreams never fool me. Once my eyes are closed they’ll slither like vines into my bed and try to smother me without me knowing, but they’re not as sneaky as they think. I know they’re coming. They squeeze themselves tight around... Full story
- 'Samurai Sticks' By Zack Quaintance
- FESTIVA'S CREATIVE WRITING ISSUE 2009
- The dust-covered action figures lined the sill inside the bedroom window, their dead eyes looking down at an industrial-sized dumpster. On the sidewalk, a 9-year-old boy looked up at the figures. Someday Jeremy’s gonna want those, he... Full story
- 'American Philosophy' by William Mainous
- FESTIVA'S CREATIVE WRITING ISSUE 2009
- On the 28th day of January, I woke up that morning only to slowly drag myself out of bed, and get myself ready to face another, potentially, tiresome day. An unexpected chill sprinted though the air that morning or at least it fell unexpectedly for... Full story
- 'Wicked – Her Secret Words' By Lina Suarez
- FESTIVA'S CREATIVE WRITING ISSUE 2009
- her secret words, they glare at me and sneer within how I am wicked, more wicked now to opt living in sin. and then I never hear her say the words, but I know, I must know she is displeased. I come from a long line of sinners. el mal... Full story
- 'What He Crosses Into' by Brenda Riojas
- FESTIVA'S CREATIVE WRITING ISSUE 2009
- The military occupies this city of faded pink concrete walls marked in green and black graffiti, a city of curfews populated with fear, a city... Full story
- 'The Outhouse – A Standing Monument to Country Essence' By Don Clifford
- FESTIVA'S CREATIVE WRITING ISSUE 2009
- Ed Ledbetter choked on a plug of Copenhagen and dang near swallowed his new store-bought upper plate. In between gasps for air he sputtered, “You want t’do what?” “I wish to install a flush toilet in my outhouse,” Jake... Full story
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