2 Chickens in the Snow
By Audie Cockings
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3 Shots from the Columbia River Gorge
By Mark Ellis
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New Poetry: Annoyed By the Bluebird
By Jon Bishop
I can hear you roaring dully,
like a lonely lion
announcing across the desert
that dinner is ready.
I want to shut you out,
but I can’t.
Because you are everywhere.
You bubble up like muck
from the depths of the earth,
and you are muck now,
squelching slime into the air,
cackling as you do.
Two Close-Up Pics of Siberian Husky Maura
These were taken April 9, 2015
By David M. Swindle
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3 Shots from a Cloudy Day at the Dog Beach
These photos were taken February 14, 2016
By David M. Swindle
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7 Spectacular SoCal Sunset Shots from Yesterday Morning While Walking Maura-Doggo…
By David M. Swindle
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3 Sweet Sunset Shots from Saturday, December 29, 2018
By David M. Swindle
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In the Newest Liberty Island Novel You Will Believe a Dog Can Fly
Discover Mike Baron’s delightful Disco
By Mike Baron
CHAPTER ONE: Nate’s Bait
Donnie Waits crouched by the rear bumper of Ralph Speece’s pickup, cradling a baggie of pot to his chest and listening to his mother and Ralph go at it through the open windows of their second-floor apartment. The four-unit apartment building sat on the outskirts of Gunderson, Wisconsin, a nowhere burg to which they’d moved three weeks ago when Kate got a job as executive secretary to Frank Werner, CEO of Werner’s Meats.The redbrick building was plunked down at the edge of a cornfield across the street from a farm. Its nearest neighbor was a tire wholesaler a quarter mile toward town. Donnie wondered why a developer would build in such a spot.
“You don’t tell me what to do!” Ralph was raging inside. He was a cut telephone lineman Kate had met at the gym, the latest in a long line of losers.
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M21: The Greatest Wolf Pack Leader Ever Known
By David Churchill Barrow
Along with his mate F42, with whom he shared authority, M21 presided over the Halcyon days of the monitored Yellowstone wolf pack known as the Druids. He died peacefully of natural causes under a tree of his own choosing; undefeated in battle yet never having killed an opponent.
When the Reign of Terror Is Part of Your DNA
Great Moments in Chaos and Order, Part III: These Guys Deserve Each Other
By Fred Tribuzzo
The European Social Survey–a science group and past winners of The Descartes Prize, Europe’s annual science award—showed in 2018 that 96% of the French population believed climate change was occurring. The same survey also said that the French weren’t losing much sleep over the notion of cataclysmic global warming. But the citizens forgot about nervous elites like President Macron, who not only believed in the bad science of media-hyped manmade planet warming, but was terrified for France and, most importantly, for the world. Macron’s one of many church-going elitists rushing across our “burning planet” scaring everyone to abandon fossil fuels through policies like the Paris Climate Accords.
