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Spy Reprints “Odd Fellows” by Lisa Friedman

March 27, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: “This might be a story about loss, about acceptance, or about grace. It all depends on the reader. Each person sees what they need to see in a story, or on a street.”  Odd ... [Continue Story]

Odd Fellows

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Spy Reprints “Two Million Breaths” by Wendy Mitman Clarke

March 14, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s note: “The story of Tahlequah carrying her dead calf for 17 days rivets and shatters me. Anthropogenic factors including pollution and depletion of chinook salmon have put this group of whales on the Endangered Species list. Every birth is vital. Tahlequah’s calf lived just half an hour. Each time she surfaced to breathe, she ... [Continue Story]

Whale

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Spy Reprints “How To Walk Among The Dead” by Jennie Linthorst

March 3, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: “After losing my mother to cancer when I was twelve years old, the cemetery where she is buried became a complicated place for me of expectation and mystery. When I became a mother ... [Continue Story]

Among the Dead

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Spy Reprints “A Knot That Holds” by Ann LoLordo

March 3, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: “While on sailing trip on the Chesapeake Bay, I became interested in nautical knots. Their use. Their names. Their configurations. The Anchor Hitch led me here.” A Knot That Holds Another husband to bury, and not yet 60. Sleepless, the dogs can’t settle down, whining in their crates, waiting for him to slip… [Continue Story]

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Spy Reprints “Days 8 & 9 Visits During Quarantine” by Joan Drescher Cooper

February 10, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: “Last March, writing a daily sonnet offered the structure to channel mounting anxiety fed by the news. The goal of five iambic feet per ... [Continue Story]

Quarantine

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Spy Reprints “Everybody Who Sits in the Zendo Is Breathing” by Doris Ferleger

February 10, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: I wrote this poem after attending a week-long silent meditation retreat at a place called Mt. Eden, at a time when I felt the way Eve might have felt after being kicked out of  ... [Continue Story]

Zendo

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Spy Reprints “Bring Me Some Hope” by Sepideh Zamani

January 20, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: Originally, I wrote this poem for Iranians who were killed during the peaceful protest on November 15, 2019 and those people who died in the Ukrainian airplane shot down in Tehran, on ... [Continue Story]

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Spy Reprints “Birth/Mother/Grand” by Lynn Lauber

January 20, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: I wrote this essay as my granddaughter was preparing to live with me for several months during the pandemic.  I’d never been alone with her for an extended period⎯her mother, my ... [Continue Story]

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Spy Reprints “Learn to Sail” by Donna Reis

January 20, 2021 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s Note: I wrote “Learn to Sail” in a poetry workshop. The assignment was to write about an instance where you misunderstood what was said. Just then a woman poked her head in the door, saying... [Continue Story]

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Spy Reprints “In a Common Sea” by Orman Day

December 27, 2020 By The Editorial Team

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Author’s note: In 1950’s Southern California, Mom didn’t have much money to spend on my birthday, so boys were invited to wear tattered clothes, smudge their faces, and join a nighttime gathering of “hobos” roasting hot dogs over a crackling campfire in our backyard. No wonder I later thumbed around America and hopped freights to New Orleans. My wanderlust eventually led me to haul my backpack around the world….as you’ll discover... [Continue Story]

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