August - 2020

Aug 30, 20201 min

Corona Summer: Safe at Home, a Poem by Jim Andrukonis

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID'. No crack of the bat or sluice of dirt As you fly feet-first into third. No dramatic...

Aug 28, 20203 min

How to Become Famous: A Guide for the [Extra] Ordinary

An essay written by Faith Esene. I google myself, and a link to different social media platforms appear on the screen, and maybe a list...

Aug 26, 20201 min

Quarantine Prayer, a Poem by Almond Syiem

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID'. for them counting breaths in strange seclusion, in complex friendship with oxygenating...

Aug 23, 20202 min

The Water-Tank, a Poem by Fatima Farhad

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID'. A poem in response to Youth Speaks' “Writing Prompts to Bridge Social Distance”. You...

Aug 19, 20202 min

On Stephen’s Lawn, a Short Story by Joan Potter

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID'. My son Stephen pulls three chairs onto the grass and wipes them with disinfectant...

Aug 16, 20202 min

Riding This Out, a Poem by Stephen House

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID'. my mum is ninety and in a nursing home her main joy is the visits she gets but the...

Aug 12, 20201 min

Another Lock-down Day During the Covid-19 Crisis, a Short Story by Silas Rallings

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID' This day was nice, no less than that, the smog calmed the sun into a tree of whispering...

Aug 9, 20203 min

Social Dissonance, a Poem by Des Mannay

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID'. Coronavirus has pushed the death toll in the United Kingdom to its highest level since...

Aug 7, 20202 min

A Tibetan Story, a Poem by Almond Syiem

I Behind snow-clad ranges is an enormous plateau of unfulfilled dreams. Beyond margins that draw lines between nations, wild horses...

Aug 5, 20201 min

Credit to All the Front-line Healthcare Workers, a Poem by Ndaba Sibanda

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID' A planet caught up in anxiety, a myriad, a cloud of uncertainties a globe caught up in...

Aug 2, 20204 min

This Thoreauvian Moment, a Short Story by Bob Kunzinger

For the collection: 'Life in the time of #COVID.' Henry David Thoreau chose to leave society and live at Walden Pond for a couple of...