Jerry Stubblefield

Bistra's Sense of Place and Being

With a carefully timed slide show of her photographs of Bulgaria backing her up, Bistra Hristova last night had us enthralled as she told...

Mechanical Muses

I have a question I hope you writers will answer for me. Do you have a mechanical muse? If so, I'd like to know about it. I have one...

Bistra Hristova: Bulgarian Photographer Feb. 24, '17

Bistra Hristova is a first generation Bulgarian American. She has lived in the USA for almost 20 years now but she is still deeply...

The Pen is Mightier than the Key

When I started out writing I was just a kid, and I did everything with pencil or pen on Big Chief tablets. Tablet, in this case, refers...

Art and Politics and Good People -- January 28, 2017

The "Art and Politics" salon took a slightly different format from previous events; it was more like a roundtable. Using Michael...

The Rain Man

Something told him he’d know more, later on, about ecstasy. He wondered about the man whose soul he'd inherited. Was it the rain man (an...

free Phosphenes

Cait's face glows orange for a second as she sucks away the last millimeter of burning leaf. I hear her exhale the smoke slowly, subtly,...

Is Art Political? Jan. 28, 7:00 p.m.

The next Salon at the Microscopic Theater will be a Wine and Cheese event for all interested artists to participate in an open discussion...

Dawn Magic

I walk out the door early in the morning, the sun just up or not even quite, and that overnight air always smells as though night has...

Dark Ecstasies (from The Paraclete)

"Mixture of aromas, rust and dust and must on the window screen, honeysuckle from next door, wisteria thick and heavy on the vine in the...

Midnight Essays