Note to writers: Here's a writing prompt for
you. I'd like to publish this story: "I live
next door to a serial killer."
Make your story as long or as short as you like. Fiction or truth, both
are okay with me. I'll publish them all, if they are fit to print.
Winter updates:
Full Disclosure, by Lou-Ellen
Barkan
Angel of Misplaced Mercy, by
Walter Giersbach
The Flash Fiction Mob, by Anita
G. Gorman
Porcine
Amor, by Colleen Halupa
Post covid shopping,
by William Levine
Rocky: My Little Love Bug,
by
Trish Paciulli
Olive,
by Elizabeth Rau
Something Fishy,
by Lina Rehal
I
Lost 15 Pounds on the Liz Taylor Diet,
by Zaphra Reskakis
A Message from the Editor
- updatedFeatured in this issue: Walter Giersbach,
he's
so prolific, so snarky, great reading
Borrowed your Boat
Death by Apathy
Moving Violation
Winter Essays and short stories:
Family Tradition,
by Kim Bonner
Three pandemic related
stories by Martin Green:
as Martin points out, things are dreadfully mundane these days for the sheltered
ones. But our poor country, yikes!
A Pandemic Walk
A
Walk in the Rain
Pandemic: the June Journal
Dog Stories! our favorite thing
Joyful Obsession,
by Colleen Halupa
102 Degrees of Love,
by Julian Grant
Book Reviews:
The Book Report,
by the editor
Late summer updates:
Mangos and Tombstones,
by Susan P Blevins
Nocturnal Hunt,
by Susan P. Blevins
Girl Talk,
by Walter Giersbach
Ray and Shirley,
by Monty McDannald
Splenda in the time of Covid19,
by Zaphra Reskakis
Encore! our most-read stories
from the summer issue:
Joined at the Heart,
by Walter Giersbach
Three delicious short stories by
Martin Green
At the Buena Vista, SF!
Appointment in Samarra 2020: a riff on John O'Hara
My Day in Lockdown
From long past issues:
Cleaning up the Idea
Files:
Part 1,
Part
2
Still relevant?
Remembering the 20th Century
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Archives:
Investigations, our extremely important research
Nature stories, saving the
environment one small step at a time
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
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Ongoing
collections:
Clever
Cooks, here it is, our recipe collection
Movie Review Archive:
A-C,
D-G, H-M,
N-S,
T-Z
Departments:
Publishing Guidelines, want to get your piece published? Read this
first.
Note: we are no longer publishing seasonally. Instead we will publish
your work into the current issue as soon as we accept it.
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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