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Issue Eighty-Five

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“Peel back the vanishing points, see
the red bench set down
in our melancholy margins of lawn.
Our new city, its boundaries, detours,
way-codes, raids for redemption,
thunder blood, arteries streaming control…”

– From Our Coming Happiness by Eileen Hennessy

8 comments to “Issue Eighty-Five”
8 comments to “Issue Eighty-Five”

  1. Loved this issue. I especially liked “On This Day” by James Peters. Not the ending I expected. It really made me stop and think. I would like to hear more about what led up to that day. Thank you for sharing.

  6. “On This Day” is a great story. Mr. Peters is in control of his story, but not in a hurry to tell it. He has a wonderful command of balance and depth, and of course, the story is very compelling. One of the best stories I have read in a while.

  7. i felt “on this day” on so many levels…

    the core despair,

    the fluctuation between joy and peace and despair and turmoil…often for no apparent reason and in no predictable fashion or timetable,

    the focus on things that don’t matter at all (I must be tough), coupled with the awe, love and appreciation of that which is always present (nature),

    judgment of those around us only to justify our own feelings of inadequacy,

    and of course the idea that heaven is as individual as we are and that we are always loved and looked after and given exactly what we want and need, even if it doesn’t look like it to our human-ness. being killed in a run down filling station could look tragic, but he so desperately wanted and needed to escape this prison of his life, that he got what he wanted and was loved and held on the way out…so perceptive and deep!

    thx for sharing such a great story!

  8. I came back to “On This Day” to read the ending yet again. My perception/meaning tends to alter over time as I reflect on the piece. Well done.

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