March 31, 2025
Commitment used to mean something in America. A promise was a promise. Where I come from you don’t renege on a deal and cast someone aside the minute something better comes along.
March 30, 2025
Mrs. and Mr. Goode were dentists and rarely home. They’d try to compensate the kids by giving them everything they asked for. That is how the kids got a cat. Being spoiled as they were, the children expected the cat to obey their every word and when their parents were around, the two little angels were nothing but good…
March 29, 2025
The Book is as much a history lesson as it is a mystery, revealing more than it conceals, but always leaving a few things a little unraveled for our imagination to wonder at — for so history itself, with its often patchy evidence, demands.
March 28, 2025
Mesu Andrews’ 2022 release, Potiphar’s Wife, takes the reader back to ancient Egypt with the Biblical story of Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife. We meet Potiphar’s wife […]
March 27, 2025
For those unfamiliar with the term, “breaking character” refers to any time a performing artist stops embodying the role they’re playing and reverts back to themselves while on stage.
March 26, 2025
I now highly recommend this to anyone with chronic pain or illness, chronic fatigue, or a body that’s just plain aging (i.e., anyone who tells me they’ve got stiffness or pain).
March 25, 2025
Issy Jinarmo is the creative brain child of playwright and author Jill Baggett, author Narelle Noppert, and journalist and author Maureen Kelly OAM. The three long-distance friends, who have rarely met in person, found their passion and a similar writing style during online forums with the Fellowship of Australian Writers during the Covid shutdown.
March 24, 2025
"Argh! Still life. All still!" Sandra tells, Robed in her dark-brown frock, as cool winds blow the welcome bells and strike the marble rock.
March 23, 2025
Maureen regarded this with mixed feelings. She thought she ought to want to see her oldest friend, May, but things…had changed.
March 22, 2025
March 21, 2025
As much as I love fantasy, and I do adore it, Science Fiction (SF) holds a special place in my heart no other genre can replace. Look up to the stars or to the center of the Earth, far into the future or a few years hence: in milieus distant and near at hand SF lives and transforms lives, written into almost-reality by more authors than one article can attempt to name.
March 18, 2025
For me, a Lenten practice isn’t about bondage, rules, or any form of rebellion against the “powers that be.” Lent has become a period of reflection, prayer, and fasting from things that harm instead of help.