Forum Magazine
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Fiction Piece: “Going to Pot”, Featuring Image: “Sunflower”
GOING TO POT Not many trees grew in the town where I grew up. My family lived on a barrier island off the coast of South Jersey. If you dug in the ground to any depth, you quickly hit salt water. But that didn’t stop residents from planting flowers. My grandmother loved to plant petunias,…
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Poetry: “Bird Stories” Featuring Image: ‘The Eyes of Bougainvillea”
Bird Stories I aging birds that once hopped fields, sang on clotheslines, now straddle trees. hot wind across the desert fluffs cactus wrens, branches bend; eaves hide warblers that echo dark canyons. under cumulous skies, thunder claps like flaps of feathers upsetting the balance of alighting night owls II a robin’s…
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Fiction Piece: “The Flesh of the Father”, Featuring Image: “The Sunset”
Flesh of the Father “Oh, thank you. Is my breath bad?” my Father Ari asked. “No, it’s just the thing I do when I am having one,” said my Uncle Zeb. I watched the transaction as if it was in slow motion. My father, a devout vegan, accepted not any Altoid but an Altoid from…
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Fiction Piece: “Shortcut”, Featuring Image: “Foggy Hill”
Shortcut Carol looked up at the man walking beside her. “You know, you really don’t have to escort me back to my grandmother’s house,” she said. “It’s just a two mile stroll along an open road. All I needed was to borrow a flashlight.” The man kept his eyes trained ahead. “Apparently Betty thought otherwise,”…
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Poem:”The Slanted Winds Down Guerrero Street” Featuring Image: “Way Back Home”
The Slanted Winds Down The afternoon fog will roll in from the North …
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Fiction Piece:”Let The Past Remind Us” Featuring Image: “Night to Remember”
Let the Past Remind Us Written By: Jeff Kaliss About the Author: Jeff Kaliss has been studying creative writing and music at City College following the completion of an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. At City, he’s appeared in Forum in various genres, read at Lit Night, and hosted the Poetry…
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Visual Art Submission “Lawson”; Featuring Poetry: “Down The Long Night”
Down The Long Night Written By: Gloria Keeley About the Author: I’m a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing. My work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Slipstream, FORUM and other journals. I graduated from CCSF and I taught at CCSF for 34 years and was…
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Poetry Piece “Nyanza” Featuring Image “History”
“Nyanza” Written By: Tom Luttrell About the Author: Tom Luttrell was born in Oakland and lives in San Francisco. He has a BA from UC Berkeley and takes classes at CCSF. “Nyanza” is his first published work. After I take down the recycling and the compost, when my hands are free, I grab my mom’s…
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Fiction Piece “Rikki” Featuring Image “Couer d’Alene”
Rikki Written By: Jeff Kaliss About the Author: Jeff Kaliss has been studying creative writing and music at City College following the completion of an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. At City, he’s appeared in Forum in various genres, read at Lit Night, and hosted the Poetry for the People Podcast. Through…
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Fiction Piece:”Unicorn”; Featuring Image: “Rainbow of Our Escape”
Unicorn Written By: Jenia Bernstein About the Author: My name is Jenia Bernstein. Born and raised in Uzbekistan, I came to the United States as a refugee in 1991. I was nineteen years old and did not speak a word of English. I now live in San Francisco with my husband and two teenage children…
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