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  Pedestal

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA

  Tampering with time and space itself, he marched through vast darkness with a vacuum. His eyes shook, straining to see but a milometer before him, but he needed not to worry, for bombast and pride stomped on all that already shivered in this man’s presence. With his vacuum, he sucked in the dark, ...
• Nonfiction > Interviews
  Necessity for American History

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA

  At 52 years old, my grandmother, Ida, went to study at Truman College. After spending 50 years living in Russia, jumping from job to job, working as a Morse code signaler and interpreter on a boat, and raising my mom as a single mother, she decided to try her luck at beauty school. Like the st...
• Reviews > Movie Reviews
  The Namesake

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA

  The 2006 film adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel “The Namesake”, tugs at the heartstrings and exposes the contrasts between Indian tradition and American life. Film adaptations of books often raise the heartbeats of avid readers who fear the loss of literary symbolism and plot adherence. Whil...
• Nonfiction > Heroes
  Estranged in a Familiar Land

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA

  A recent school assembly with Judy Meisel struck upon many of the feelings that my great grandmother and then young grandmother experienced. They were estranged by anti-Semitism in Russia, and country where they had lived in for the entirety of their lives. Even following World War II, anti-Semitic ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Cycles

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA

  She watched her walk by. Actually she kind of turned by, spinning in circles and looking about herself with a flabbergasted expression. Then she was out of Frida’s field of vision. Frida watched the wind pick up a little and smiled as a few bronze leaves scattered into the road. Frida thrived most...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Cab Ride

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA

  “JFK International Airport please!” Miss Saine exclaimed, her mind brewing with the countless places she could visit and the numerous wonders she could see. “Take me to the best airline!” her words slurred together very slightly. The cab driver, who interacted with such hopefuls nearly ev...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  For Show

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA

  Satin shines steadily Caressed by its owners soft hands Sliding out as ribbons spill off the sides Each sewn sloppily Still it binds Nonetheless It fetters with cotton fluff* Torn as the top of the box And those toes All bunions, and blisters, and bruises Battered And beaten They ...
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  Shadows of their Future

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA
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  Soar

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA
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  Away or Towards?

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA
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  Old Year Passing

  

  By bqtu2, Richboro, PA