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Winner of the Month: Big Smile
By Nora Coombs I have a big smile. That I do. I have a big smile that masks pain behind the truth. I have a big smile so that I can go...
Tim Parks
Jun 11 min read


Creative of the Month: May 2025
Jeffrey Parish Artifacts Forest Haven 54425 N Circle Drive #4 Idyllwild, CA 92549 -How did you become interested in becoming a creative...
Tim Parks
Jun 13 min read


Winner of the Month: The Sidewalk Said So
By Alessandra Konzen I’ve been trying to take walks without distractions lately—no music, no podcasts, no scrolling, no emails. Just me,...
Tim Parks
May 12 min read


Mating Season
By Tim Parks For about a week this past winter, I started hearing a constant noise only at night. I described it as a rusty hamster wheel...
Tim Parks
May 12 min read


"Love over fate!"
By Sammy B. Tyrrell In the kingdom of Eldwyne, nestled between forest and fog, there lived a reclusive magician named Caelum. He wasn’t...
Tim Parks
May 12 min read


Bird Lives: A Haiku
By Grace A. Hendricks Wings aflutter, soaring sky high Falling from an azure sky to die Bird soars, dies, flies, lives
Tim Parks
May 11 min read


Creative of the Month: April 2025
Creative of the Month: Jennafer Grace -How did you become interested in becoming a creative person? I'm honestly not sure that I had...
Tim Parks
May 12 min read


Winner of the Month: “The Gangs all here!”
By Sammy B. Tyrrell Aren’t they gorgeous?! Picture perfect even. Haven’t you heard…? Well, you’re looking at the Verdugo Hills ladies....
Tim Parks
Apr 14 min read


The Lucky Strikes
By Brad Shaw The way that I found out my father wasn’t my father happened at the most unlikely of places, a bowling alley. In the decades...
Tim Parks
Apr 14 min read


Creative of the Month: March 2025
Jon Gaw/Idy Stained Glass 54200 N. Circle Dr. Unit D (all the way in the back of the lane) Idyllwild-Pine Cone, CA 92549 -How did you...
Tim Parks
Apr 12 min read


“Perform for me…”
By: Sammy B. Tyrrell I stand here… guitar at the ready… microphone pressed against my lips, and for just a moment the light disappears...
Tim Parks
Mar 33 min read


Winner of the Month: WOP BOP-A-LOO BOP
By Art Gomez ACT II SCENE B-1 FADE IN: INT. 3RD STORY APARTMENT KITCHEN. MORNING. Seated at a small table, by a curtain-less window,...
Tim Parks
Mar 13 min read


Wisdom of the Father
By John Edward Marin When I was a young boy the world seemed so big, so insurmountable. How come we are placed on a rock that is so large...
Tim Parks
Mar 13 min read


'Kelly Brianne' A Song (sung in Honky Tonk Style)
By Michael Brown
Tim Parks
Mar 11 min read


Ladies and Gentlemen, For Your Listening Pleasure, The Dick-Tones
By Tim Parks This interview with pioneering musician Dick Stillwell is a transcript that was conducted for the upcoming Netflix...
Tim Parks
Mar 14 min read


Creative of the Month: February 2025
reative of the Month: Robert Gomez aka Dytch66 54585 N Circle Dr Suite A, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA 92549 -How did you become interested in...
Tim Parks
Feb 281 min read


Baby Bear By Eleanor Aurora Frost
She heard them before she saw them. "Hah, what a night that was," said one voice. "We couldn't have been any luckier." "It wasn't...
Tim Parks
Jan 314 min read


The Bear By MaryAnn Fitzgerald
"Poor cub, torn from mom Wish she'd come from behind them And maul those fuckers"
Tim Parks
Jan 311 min read


Tim Parks
Jan 310 min read
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