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POETRY

NON FICTION

A Life Spent Running From Blue BWK ..I swam the East Sea - desperate and nude / to sedate the cry of the blue-faced babe that I was born

Protest Tyler Peterson ..mourn death / celebrate with millions / of lives / loved in hands / freed by arms / content to live ..

Texas Street Vernon Mooers ..He's alone, bandana-headed / down on Foreigner Street / with another girl / to starve his guilt away

Kumjeong Mountain at Daybreak Kenneth Parsons ... breaking, breaking / into the code of the morning calm..

Christmas Journal 1996 : The Open Square and The Narrow Lane Kenneth Parsons ..Yes, Guo, we have arrived / And we have opened a simple gift between us

Trancespirations Steve Lee .. Know that I wish to engulf you...

On Death's Bed Steve Lee ..Onward unblinking unto the quiet veneer of death

The Budding of a Christmas Tree Patricia Hart ..Once Upon a Christmas Time, not so long ago, / There lived a Little boy ...

Travels, an elegy for Evan Carl Hunsicker Ben Eller..two languages, two selves, with one body to settle accounts.

Two Songs Remco Dalmaijer ...From a Man Who Thinks Maybe This Adventure Was a Mistake ...

Sitting Here Thinking Jonathan Danker ..Lessons cost something but mistakes come for free. / Running from something to come to this land

Winter's Growth Chris Weagle ..In Spring, cabbages and radishes begin to grow / on the fertile ground of tilled and tended landfill...

told to love Tyster ..skies tight with memories / touched by / roads and touched by / the touch of love

Freedom will Reign Megan Shields ..How fragile am I sitting here free, / Wondering how long my freedom shall be..

Firefly Michel ..Night sounds, only one. / Spirits whisper in the blackness

My First Korean Haircut Andrea Schenck .. The time had come to face all my fears and finally get a haircut here in Korea.

Konglish Rocks! Scott Soper .."Language is a skin. I rub my language against the other".

Geoje-do, Part 7 : The Ferry Pita Bird Shawn Matthews ..From an orange plastic bowl crawled a squid onto the cement. It squirmed desperately ...

The Subway Salesman Shawn Matthews .. they followed his hand intently with their eyes...

The Vegetable Man Shawn Matthews .. The voice shouted on -- a rooster crooned, a dog howled in chorus...

Exposed Sari Fordham ...I was naked. Buck-naked. Stark-naked. Stripped. Exposed. Stunned. Totally nude. Embarrassed forever...

Mother-In-Law Diaries Scott Morley ...Every morning at ten o’clock the house is rocking with elderly drunk–junkies cheering on my son..

Greekfreak 3:1 (travelogue part 3) Johnny Ioannidis ... Ten countries into the trip, and I decide to finally turn my music off, sit down, and watch..

Still Steven Reeder .. "There could be a problem." He put the ultrasound away.


FICTION

NON NATIVE SPEAKER

Boom Boom in Pusan L.F. Beaucher ..He got knocked down eight times in one fight and then he came back and he knocked the other boxer out.  Please, don't stop it.  Please.  Promise me.

The Dead Rat 'The Flying Fish' ..Fugly (abbreviation for F#%king ugly) was sprawled out casually on his bedding of plastic wrappings and assorted road trash..

The World Cyber Games Scott Soper .. I’m reading ‘Fear and Loathing’ at the 2nd annual World Cyber Games here in Daejeon, South Korea..

What 70,000 won Will Get You in Busan Jake Roberts ..then I looked at the mirror to my right, and saw a face that wasn't mine.

Broken Umbrellas Michael White ...She was a fortuneteller who always finished with the words believe it or not, but they all believed

The Water Between the Fish Zachary J. George ... His hands shook. He made a loop and wrapped the string around his finger...

The Monk Who Never Sleeps Ian Christopher Hooper ...You need a calming kind of story, really.  A good story to end things up with

Jungang-dong Albert Puido ... We were in a Western bar, which meant Indian Chiefs with beer taps, lassos for ashtrays, and seared wood tables.

Three Girls, Three Days A.C. Koch ..."I also had a date." She peeks at me to see my reaction...

Captain Q Scott Morley...She said, "I marry Korean boy. But I keep you Sunday. Okay?"

A Ride Into Oblivion Esposito ...My head is pounding and I seem paralyzed. I’m aware of a steady, throbbing pain behind my eyes..

Obstacles  Scott Morley   ...It seemed impossible to keep any foreigner happy at all. If Korea is a developing nation, it'd better be good and developed by next week..

Untitled (poem) Shin Flower blooming face to the sky out to passerby / Gently smiling as face to face they become one ...

The Boy Has Soul Blisters Shin .. I want to think about Valentine's Day in Korea, but I better tell you all I am distracted ..

The Last Night in Paris Han, You Hee ...whenever I think of my first trip to Europe or Paris, that nightmare comes across my mind first ...

Beomosa   Zhang Linlan  ..They walk humbly. After entering the individual temples, they say nothing to each other.

 

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