Hubris
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Aline P’nina Tayar’s Lingua Franca
The Hubris Review By Janet Kenny “The book begins in Sydney, Australia at the end of the lives of her mother and father. Tayar has temporarily returned from abroad to attend to the…
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Per Ardua Ad Astra
“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth/And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;/Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth/of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things/You have not dreamed of—wheeled and…
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If Anyone Builds It
The Hubris Review By Dr. Jason Page “A hundred years of cautionary tales has taught us apparently very little. We continue to build devices that could bring about the end of our civilization,…
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The Unintended but Inevitable Famine of 2026
Planetary Hospice By Dr. Guy McPherson “The first two paragraphs of the story at HR News provide a daunting overview: ‘On March 27, 2026, Stanislav Krapivnik — a former US Army officer, supply chain executive, and…
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Of Frogmore Stew & The Gold Eagle Tavern
“I was, let’s say, witness to a number of amazing experiences during these months of recovery, of realignment, of rebirth. There were escapades of utterly insane, reckless high speed chases through farmers’ fields;…
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Rhythmic Sense: Light Verse
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger, aka The Wordspinner “As a versifier, I’m aware that rime does not pay; as a recovering Presbyterian, my firmest belief is in the illusion of free will;…
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A Meeting in Rome
On a Hiding to Nothing By Laurence O’ Dwyer “Father M thought I was too focused on the past, that I was looking for dirt on McQuaid. But to say that McQuaid was…
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A. E. Stallings’ Frieze Frame
The Hubris Review By William Ramp “Stallings makes a claim that has grown on me though it is necessarily figurative rather than physical. She depicts, with much documentation from the poetry of Cavafy forward, that…
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Timecard Humor
“At my place of work, a ‘timecard reminder’ lands in all our inboxes at the end of each week. Rather than send out the same, flat, ‘please submit your timecard,’ prompt, our administrator…
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Human Sintering & The Theory of Water
The Hubris Review By William Ramp “She has got me thinking of something else: the idea of the Sovereign Individual, self-governing, self-propertied, autonomous; steered by a State of Self toward whatever destiny, fame,…