Drift & Dribble Miscellany, Literary Magazine
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A reader's compendium of wit, observation and literary amusements with an artistic flair.
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Marbles | Fiction by John Friedman
It’s Greenwich Village in the summer of 1960. Paul looks out a bedroom window, superstitious about missing a call from his former girlfriend, Cassia. He’s rarely out of range of the phone, he’s so anx...
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The Bricklayer's Son | Nonfiction by Dale Scherfling
The neighborhood gang hung together, played together, stayed together. In the parks and playgrounds, to the Saturday matinée at the Dreamland, along sidewalks where we knew every crack...
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Her Day in Court | Nonfiction by Marcia Yudkin
I sat tensely in the witness box, my vision and hearing narrowed to a rectangle that ran from me to the judge. The rest of the courtroom, including my husband leaning forward on the edge of his seat i...
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Lake Life | Memoir | by Ellen Acconcia
After the three-hour drive from our third-floor walkup in Brooklyn, we turn onto a short, unpaved track and I get my first glimpse of the shimmering lake. I study the six tidy, white cottages on a gra...
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Just One | Fiction | by Richard Boe
His father said he was only going in for one. He said it through the half-open driver’s window with the easy certainty of a man saying something he expected to be believed because he had said it often...
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Hidden for the Right Time | Note to My Younger Self | by Sarona Wolter
Your daughter—yes, we have two little mini-mes—asked me the other day: “What do you wish you had when you were younger that you didn’t have?” And it made me think of you...
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The Detour | Nonfiction | by Curtis C. Morgan
There are weeks in a life that you recognize, even as they happen, as something you will carry forever. We have had our share. But if Beth and I had to name one—one week above all others...
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Into the Fire | Personal Account by Jennifer Kelly
“Don’t tell a patient that it will be okay.” Our nursing professor strolled the aisles of the cramped classroom one hand clutching her cane. The walls were dusty pink, and we sat at rickety desks, the...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Priceless | by B. Michael Rubin
My parents weren't art connoisseurs nor were they culturally clueless. My mother owned a Peter, Paul and Mary LP. Occasionally she would pull out a boxed set of La Bohème records, a gift from her moth...
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Our Injuries | Fiction by Daniel Barrios
“Are you mad at me?” I asked while slicing cucumbers at work. I had it down to a science. They had to be cucumbers-cucumbers, not squash or zucchini, because those spoke to the mandolin the best. “No,...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Nayra Atiya | Shift in Awareness | 3 Poems
Children are signposts for those of us who give birth to them, adopt, or foster them, care for and teach them. They lead us all into worlds we may never have encountered...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Interview | Kittentits Author Holly Wilson with Jack Gayer
Stephen King once wrote that there are easy reads, but there are no easy “writes.” When people respond with pearl-clutching to your book on Goodreads, you respond by liking their bad reviews...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Letter Not About Love | by Laura Lemmon
There are few people who elicit strong enough emotions to write letters to. So maybe you’ll appreciate this, since you enjoy eliciting strong emotions just for the sake of it. I think you’re obligated...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Don’t Forget Me | by Lleyton M. Kane
You're expecting wisdom. Some hard-won insight I'll be grateful for later, delivered backward through time like a telegram from the wreckage. If only I'd known. That kind of thing...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | The Boy from 5B | by Rebecca Mejia
We were in the middle of our math lesson on the morning of Valentine’s Day when I felt a sudden energy shift in the fifth-grade classroom, the air bristled with an electricity that had not been there ...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Blood In My Alcohol Stream | by Madison Hankins
Her eyes are hidden behind their damp lids, blocking out whatever might enter her room this time. Tucked into the crook of Charlie’s arm, as if being strangled, is her stuffed...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Pushed Over the Edge | by Marc Watson
It’s entirely his fault he’s dead. That much, I think, is beyond question. He didn’t deserve a life to live out—at least, not the kind he pretended to lead. He earned his demise, whether anyone wants ...
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The Drift & Dribble Miscellany | Black Forest Canyon | by Ric Brancato
I reach into the shower, turn the shower knob to hot, wait a few seconds, and step in. Ahhh. Now how good does this feel? I close my eyes and rock myself, gently, side to side, letting the water rain ...
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