Clever: The Ezine for the Neglected Demographic

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Clever Magazine
The ezine for the neglected demographic!
Fall 2016
"Time for the great bird migration,
and a little Clever nostalgia."

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A Message from the Editor
Movie Reviews: Florence Foster-Jenkins, Jason Bourne, Our Kind of Traitor -
Book Reviews: In Bed with the Phantom: just two this time -
Growing up in St. Johns: a Portland, Oregon neighborhood by Dianne Kochenburg -

Essays and Short Fiction:
The Callback, by Gary Beck -
Voting Trump? Get Dumped, by Susan P. Blevins -
Floored, by Susan P. Blevins -
What is Risk? by Ken Carlson -
Thanks For The Memory, by Madonna Dries Christensen -
Where is Percy? by Patricia Crandall -
A Garden Affair, by Mary Cooney-Glazer -
Remembering Billy, by Sue Ellis -
The View from 85 (excerpt), by Martin Green -
My Last Recital, by William Metcalfe -
The Wait, by Lina Rehal -
Why I'll Never Be a Zen Master, by Wayne Scheer -
Comrades, Luxury Dining is Crucial
to Bringing about our Radiant Socialist Future, by Maya Vinokour -
Welcome to The Federation®, by Donald N.S. Unger™ -

Travels:
When in Naples: love the pizza - skip the ice, by Fred Steinberg -

The funny stuff:
Fall giggles -
Paraprosdokians (from Wikipedia) -
Punishment, by Roy Blokker -

Encore!
The Old Codger, by Dominic Carew -
Big Island Time, by Dianne Kochenburg -
Going Home, by Wayne Scheer -

Wanna read the editor's stuff?

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Archives:
Art Exhibits, updated
Essays, the best of previous issues
Fiction, hopes, dreams, falsehoods & mysteries
Gardens are our passion
Investigations, our extremely important research
Nature stories, saving the environment one small step at a time
Pet Pages, lots of heavy petting going on
Travel Essays, armchair travel at its finest

Humor Archives, or look at the following:
Relationship, senior and southern humor
Pearly gates and regional humor
One-liners

The Phantom's Page: here's the editor's stuff

Ongoing collections:
Clever Cooks, here it is, our recipe collection

Movie Review Archive:
A-C, D-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z

The Clever Lists, we love lists

Departments:
Advice Column
Publishing Guidelines, want to get your piece published? Read this first.
About Clever, maybe more than you want to know
A Message from the Editor: occasionally the editor spouts off about something
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