My
Christmas Wish for You in 2021
A Message from the Editor
Book Reviews:
The Book Report,
by the editor
Featured in this issue: Walter Giersbach,
so prolific, so snarky, great reading
Borrowed your Boat
Death by Apathy
Moving Violation
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 GrantLate 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
Featured writer, Wayne Sheer. Wayne has
been a Clever contributor for years. As a way of thanking Wayne for his
loyalty to Clever, I decided to feature him in this issue. I have two
new stories from him to share with you, and a couple of reposts that
will amuse you too.
The Cat's Pajamas
What I learned Today
Gardeners Anonymous
No Unusual Activity
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
The Chasm, a cheeky little potboiler by Dianne Kochenburg
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:
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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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