Art Keane finished calculating the monthly budget and wondered how he was going to tell his family there would be no vacation that year. It was Saturday, and he hadn’t had a day off in months, much less a few hours to relax and think about anything other than financial pressures. Exhausted and secretly afraid […]
Sandra Knauf has worn many hats in her garden writing career—she’s been a “Colorado Voices” columnist for The Denver Post and her work has appeared nationally in publications that include GreenPrints and Mary Janes Farm; she’s shared her work locally here on USR and on Colorado Springs’s NPR affiliate radio station KRCC. In 2011, she
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Random moments never lost, a whisper clear that speaks delight says, “Come enjoy the sanctity of selfless union fused in light.” A laugh, a scream, a rush of lust, a gentle touch when tears do stream, they’re all so real inside love’s mind, yet still the things we always dream. We take this world, so
I’ve been thinking about zombies lately. After all, even though a zombie can’t carry a season series like a charming, athletic vampire, zombies en masse do resemble an endlessly reproducing horde of consumers staggering through life, oblivious to the state of our culture, government, and environment. Worst of all, their only true aim is to
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She pulled one last handful of breadcrumbs from the paper bag and tossed it to the ducks floating near the edge of the pond. Then she sat next to her grandfather on the park bench, grabbed her sketch pad, and finished a drawing of the ducks she had been working on. “When we get home,”
Buildings collapsing all around me, my apartment swaying back and forth at weird angles, and when the earth stops shaking, we all bear witness to a city in chaos— no power, natural gas, or phone service, everything closed, traffic jammed, emergency crews, sirens, cops and soldiers everywhere. Flights are coming and going, and I have
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