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My dreams look like homesickness, like peeling oranges on a hot summer day in my grandpa’s backyard, except in the dream he ...

Shangri-La** It’s a place where foals and camels live The lake and starry sky clinging affectionately We sat in a circle around a small campfire Knowing that I am more sorrowful and pained than you We ...

It seemed my aspirations were the complete antithesis of my parents’desires, something more akin to an “Un-American Dream.” ...

David Ben Eke is encouraging children aged five to 17 to submit stories for the anthology.

Reviews of Crowd Voltage; Uncertain Passage; The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad; and the Collected Poems of Wendy Cope ...