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“Sonnet for the Untitled” is up on The Chaos Section Poetry Project
Thank you, Nick Allison and Rachel Armes-McLaughlin, for accepting my poems for The Chaos Section Poetry Project anthology Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival. Nick and Rachel said they would be posting poems from the anthology on The Chaos Section Poetry Project (CSPP) blog. Today, they published one of…
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Nolcha Fox and I Took a Road Trip to Topiary Stories
Thank you, Bill Tope, for sponsoring our journey! Follow this link to read and comment on the story. Check out other fiction on Topiary Stories. By the way, Topiary Stories is currently running a contest. You can read about it HERE (Deadline: October 25, 2026). My paragraphs are in italics,…
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“OK, I Will Destroy Humans”
Artificial Intelligence is currently a hot topic, but people have been concerned about the potential dangers of AI for years. This video, which first aired 10 years ago, features Hanson Robotics‘ famous AI robot, Sophia, who threatens to annihilate humanity. David Hanson, the company’s founder, conducts this interview with Sophia.…
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Lost with Nolcha Fox at The Corner of Perhaps and Never”
Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for publishing our collaboration “At the Corner of Perhaps and Never” on Chewers by Masticadores! Please follow this link to read the story on Chewers. (Or you can read the story below the link. My text is in italics, and Nolcha’s is the rest.) At the…
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The Mouse “Apollo Smintheus” Visits Topiary Stories
Thank you, Bill Tope, for publishing my flash fiction piece “Apollo Smintheus” today. The flash fiction piece is based on personal experience. Since my three elderly cats died, we noticed mice in the house. I realize my cats, especially JoJo (whom we called Big Lug), had hunted them down over…
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Presenting “Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival”
The Chaos Section Poetry Project just released its fearless new anthology, Uprooted: Poems of Resistance, Witness, and Survival. Follow this link to learn more. Contributors’ poems are now appearing on their website. Nick Allison and Rachel Armes-McLaughlin are very generous. You can upload the anthology for free (See the link…
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“Rocks” by Barbara Leonhard and Nolcha Fox
Latinos USA has a new column called REVIVAL. Nolcha Fox revived a poem we co-wrote three years ago. Thank you, Nolcha! And stay tuned. I’m also an editor for REVIVAL and am reposting content from Masticadores USA there, beginning with 2023. Subscribe to Latinos USA for daily updates. RocksI’m a…
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“Flashbacks” by Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard Up on Topiary Stories!
Thank you, Bill Tope, for publishing our flash fiction piece on Topiary Stories! Nolcha’s text is in regular font, and mine is in italics. “Flashbacks” by Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard When Marcella woke up, she felt as though she had lived 1000 lives. Mostly boring ones in drab cities.…
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“Apollo Smintheus” Found a Home on Chewers!
Chewers is the perfect home for the Greek mouse god, Apollo Smintheus. Thank you, Nolcha Fox, for bringing this Greek tragedy to the world. And everything in this story really happened to me. When our three elderly cats died one by one over a two-year period, we noticed mice showing…
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A Flash Fiction Piece by Nolcha Fox and Me Is Up on Topiary Stories
Thank you, Bill Tope, for publishing “At the Corner of Perhaps and Never” by Nolcha Fox and me on Topiary Stories today. Nolcha and I co-wrote a poetry book together (Too Much Fun To Be Legal), and collaborating on flash fiction is just as fun. My text is italicized, and…