After an incredible response from writers that resulted in a large collection of talented work, judge Gráinne Murphy took on...
William Shakespeare managed to pack an awful lot of drama into his graveyard scene in Hamlet. In fewer than three...
Ezra Ray and I grew up together in a small South Georgia town of no more than three thousand persons....
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A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me...
Ninety feet beneath the surface of the Coral Sea, in the inky dark of night, hovering just above a reef...
I was twelve when I figured out God. Mom was a devout Presbyterian who taught Sunday school. Every evening she...
THE PARLOR is a series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can find...
Daddy sat up in a tangled mess of damp sheets. He reached over to the nightstand and grabbed a Camel....
Around Troupsburg The night unwinds its skein of silver-blue wool around the moon and trains its face to glow upon...
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Rite of Passage In Bali, it’s the filing of the canines to limit boys’ wild adolescence. Among Cameroon’s Baka Pygmies...