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Glass by Mark Dunau
I’ve only had an employer once. That was in 1976 as a playwright for an experimental theater company in New Orleans. My payment was $50 a week. I had helped write a grant to the National Science Foundation for a play about science based on the invention of clear and colorless glass in Venice in the Fifteenth Century. Amongst other changes, this invention led to the telescope, microscope, mirrors, and light in the home through the mass production of glass windows; generally up
Greg Triggs
Dec 17, 20253 min read


Spectrums, by Greg Triggs
Trick or treat is a binary choice. Binary choices are inevitable; but create division, leaving you in one camp or the other. Either or. Blue or Red. What I am against, decides what the world thinks I am for. My brother Butch is many things, including intellectually disabled. He just moved into a supervised home. Getting him approved for that level of benefits took years. Years , despite being the son of a military veteran left permanently disabled by a WWII
Greg Triggs
Oct 26, 20253 min read


3 Deserts, by Moonching Wu
1. My dream of visiting the Sahara came true in Erg Chebbi, Morocco. Our guide Daoud called himself a driver, yet without his guiding I...
Greg Triggs
Sep 17, 20253 min read


Windshield Wipers by Bizzy Coy
I am driving through the Pennsylvania backwoods. The first big winter storm has come and gone. The pavement is clear thanks to plows and...
Greg Triggs
Sep 10, 20253 min read


SAM, I AM WHAT I AM
The incomparable Sam Singhaus, AKA Miss Sammy My friend Sam is dead. Too soon. Too painfully. Contrary to his nature. Sammy wasn’t one...
Greg Triggs
May 21, 20253 min read


First Visit, by Pamela Cravez
There is a baby in my kitchen sink, round-faced with serious blue eyes, she sits in an inch of water as her mother lathers her hair into...
Greg Triggs
Apr 1, 20253 min read


Fools, by Willow Baum
The year is 2011. Our seven-person Internet start-up co-works in a glass fish bowl beside other start-ups on a high floor that overlooks...
Greg Triggs
Mar 16, 20255 min read


In the Wake of Wrath, by Bill Fellenberg
The phone screeches at two a.m., jolting me awake. It’s Doctor X from Keystone Hospital, whom I've never met. He’s furious. “Your father...
Greg Triggs
Mar 13, 20253 min read


Secreted Benefit, by Shirley Schneider, Yarnslingers Alaska
It was 1962. The world had yet to be introduced to the iPhone, the watch or personal computer. Heck, most of our clocks needed winding...
Greg Triggs
Feb 24, 20253 min read


Scary! by Dawn McIntyre
Kids love to be scared. I remember gravitating toward ghost stories or tales about awful monsters, even if they gave me nightmares for a...
Greg Triggs
Feb 5, 20253 min read


Git Along Little Dogies, Teresa Tulipano
We moved from California to England when I was 3 months old, and my older sister Tina was 8. My parents were unhappy together. From...
Greg Triggs
Jan 29, 20253 min read


MRI of a Rose by Ramona Jan
It was summertime when I was diagnosed with late stage cervical cancer, and so started doing a wrong thing, moving flowers in an...
Greg Triggs
Dec 29, 20243 min read


Unexpected Christmas Heroes, by Greg Triggs
It’s mid-December on a snowy Saturday, 1970-something, in Madison Wisconsin. My sister Valerie is home from boarding school. She’s blind,...
Greg Triggs
Dec 20, 20243 min read


Naughtiness in the Time of Meteors by Bill Fellenberg
When Mom left, it happened gradually, and then suddenly. Now, it was just us in our new “Situation.” Dad mapped out Plan A. He’d continue...
Greg Triggs
Dec 13, 20243 min read
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