December 2021
Literature Direct Publishing
Unlike the ancient Odyssey or the modernist Ulysses, the epic work that is Amazon delivers immediate gratification to all customers...
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Soviets vs. Nazis
More than seven decades have passed since the end of World War II and what was once part of lived communal knowledge has gradually fallen away...
Read More“It was like a great trashy novel had come to life”
She had everything she could possibly want. And then the police announced that she and her lover-boy nephew were cold-blooded killers...
Read MoreThe 7th Mode
Racers such as the bounty hunter Captain Falcon hovered smoothly across intergalactic circuits suspended in the sky...
Read MoreDecorating Fragrant Evergreens
Celebrants added nuts, strings of popcorn or beads, oranges, lemons, candies and home-made trinkets. However, widely-read newspapers and ladies' magazines raised the standards for ornamentation...
Read MoreSusanna Crossman: Riding the Baking Edge #7
It is December. People bake, putting goods into ovens. Quiet sweetness is placed on tables...
Read MoreChristmas Number
There is no more dangerous or disgusting habit than that of celebrating Christmas before it comes...
Read MoreDouglas Penick: Christmas Claus Causality
Presents embody a moment in which the obligation to work for every material joy is suspended...
Read Morebell hooks in Denmark
We have so many new groups like the Spice Girls, who are asserting a kind of feminist adventurism with their music...
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Extraordinary Winter
Beginning in December 1917, a powerful series of unrelenting and formidable ice storms and blizzards wreaked havoc across the United States...
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Louverture at the Brit
Based on extensive research, including a visit to Fort de Joux, Martineau’s historical romance repeatedly stated the idea of black agency and capability...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
Read More