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by Mike Power

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  • Lost and Found

    Hot off the presses (and computer screen) comes my contemporary novel of love Lost and Found. “It was a nightmare. It had to be. What else could it be? Alan’s body was broken and bloody. The bones that hadn’t been ripped from his skeleton were snapped like twigs. Something large, machine or animal, had attacked… Read more

  • The Ultimate Sacrifice

    That soil is now depletedAnd worse than dangerousIt thirsts for fresh nutrition for its decaying rootsIt sees its own reflection in the water and ignores the rippling wavesIt imagines green leaves sprouting from its dustIt believes its own most vicious lies The trees have fallen, died, and burnedThey’ve buried themselves in sand They’ve shed their… Read more

  • Don’t Worry Baby

    This is my cover of the Beach Boy’s classic. Not that I’m one to criticize Brian Wilson who is an incredible songwriter (and a hell of a pitcher) but there’s one line that’s always bugged me and I changed it here. The last verse originally included the lines: …take along my love with you…nothing can… Read more

  • Because The Night

    I was turned onto this clip by my old bandmate Todd. It’s a great rendition of Springsteen’s song with Michael Stipe of REM taking lead vocals. https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/KOOmaBbqYBk&source=uds Take me now baby here as I amPull me close, try and understandDesire is hunger is the fire I breatheLove is a banquet on which we feed Come… Read more

  • Andrew – Fictional Humans of New York (FHONY) #7

    Andrew rubbed his eyes. They always bothered him these days. They burned and itched and teared up and dribbled down his sore red cheeks. It was hardly worth all the time and effort he put into breathing and eating and drinking and sleeping if he was going to have to put up with these eyes.… Read more

  • Stefan Zweig’s Moral Dilemma

    Last night I went to an event at The Center for Fiction for the release of a new biography of Stefan Zweig by George Prochnik. While it was a fascinating discussion in a lot of ways the thing that stuck in my mind was the moral dilemma posed by Zweig’s confrontation with the Nazis. At… Read more