Round Midnight
By Dan Brotzel ‘Thanks very much for those updates, Peter and Iannis. Our next news and weather will be at about 12.30, as always. ‘So… it’s just gone seven minutes after 12, and you’re listening to Round Midnight, with me, Kevin Limina. And as usual, I’ll be guiding you through the graveyard shift with another…
October on the Prairie
By Margaret Rozga The purple asters still hold their color. A west wind urges, frees, shakes loose, sweeps gold maple leaves from their branches and rains them down to earth after taking them for a spin. You ask if I still believe the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice. The moral universe. Is…
Home for the Summer
By Leah Kindler The last summer that my heart is all the way home, I do the kid things. Sara and I lose sight of the sun behind the laundromat and our slipping towers of soft-serve. We sit there until half the people we know have walked past the stoop. We lay out our entire…
Two Poems by David L. Stanley
About the Author: David L. Stanley, B.Sc, M.A., is a teacher, poet and author, voice-over actor, and speaker. His work has appeared in national magazines on topics from professional bicycle racing to men, depression, and suicide. His first book, Melanoma, It Started with a Freckle was hailed by Prof. Tom Foster of How to Read Novels Like a Professor as “harrowing,…
An Interview with John Kropf
By Megan Neary John Kropf’s Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of a Crayon Company is a feat of in-depth history blended with personal and family memoir. He tells the story of the rise and fall of the American Crayon company, which was founded by his relatives shortly after the civil war. This story…
Emergency
By Gary Duehr I am an emergency. My name is Bernie Smith, my colleagues at HR Block used to call me St. Bernard, like the hospital on the South Side, because I was always trying to save someone a few bucks. I still live a couple blocks from the hospital, near where the Dan Ryan…
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