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A Florentine Affair to Remember Antonia Greco My night started out like any other: a dinner of risotto, accompanied by the finest bottle of Chianti that five euros could buy. A Blindspot in Turkey Nina Nooit Ispir, a small town tucked away in the mountains behind Turkey’s Black Sea coast, in the historical area of Pontus, is a blind spot on any travellers’ map.

The Youth Who Ran For Flour  Abdalghani Owda 7.27.25 The real price of a bag of flour in Gaza Helping Writers Find Solace in Sobriety Indiana Lee As a writer, you’ve probably heard the maxim commonly associated with Hemingway “Write drunk, edit sober”. In fact, this kind of thinking may have led you to think that drinking alcohol will, in some way, improve your creative practice.

First steps to Gladrags Dean Borok I put all my things in storage, packed up my best clothes and my design portfolio, and caught the Montrealer express train to New York Paradise as The 'Other ' Place Amanda Williams debates happiness in cinema Images of a Friend Tyrel Nelson When I saw José Martínez for the first time, he was coughing up a lung outside my neighbor’s front door.

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North Six Gregory Smith 8.15.25 Never go back Yellow Hair Abigail George It feels like winter in September and the sky are just supposed to be pieces of blue sky; instead they’re slate grey with the beckoning, darkening rain clouds not yet completely rinsed out of them. My sister and I do not have a perfect relationship. Flamingo Oswaldo Jimenez The old man lived in a house by the water near the Sound. His neighbors called him a recluse.  Some said he was mad, others said he was disfigured. The kids at my school said he was a vampire. Kinds of Love Martin Green I was trying to show what it was like being a young man in love Koffee Kulture Leigh Pierce "Welcome to Karma Koffee, home of the $450 dollar coffee, how can I help you?"

The Days After She Went Dancing Sam Hawksmoor 8.18.25 Flamenco Can Be Murder! *The Backstory to 'Days After' here GIRL with CAT (Blue) by Sam Hawksmoor London doesn't exist - all those who say it does are LIARS! In The Mood For Love Dan Schneider archives Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, is clearly a superior work of art and cinema

REVOLUTION – PRINCE, THE BAND, THE ERA James Campion 8.15.25 I am happy to announce that my new book, Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era is coming out on August 28! Breasts, etc. by Nthikeng Mohlele (TK). Publisher: Blank Page Books Bhekisisa Mncube review - 8.16.25   The Endearing Charm of The Prince of Darkness James Campion 7.30.25 Ozzy never took his ascent from stumblebum nobody to the heights of rock stardom for granted... Sholay celebrates it's 50th anniversary Harsh Thakor - Aug 15th 2025

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