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Archive October 2009

In the morning, when I brush my hair looking in the mirror

October 6, 2009 by · 1 comment

Aksinia Mihailova Photo: jenny downing In the morning, when I brush my hair looking in the mirror, he is reading his newspaper, Many days in a row I keep telling him my incessantly recurring dreams of the city of white walls and a dreadfully hollow frame, of the city of Breton and immensely alluring lilies […]

Artist of the week – Into the female sensitivity with Joanne Cruickshank

October 4, 2009 by · 3 comments

An Interview with Joanne Cruickshank by Desislava Velichkova The reason I was very impressed with your work is the way you use a woman’s body. It’s absolutely amazing how you succeed in presenting all the beauty of the naked female soul… Can you tell me more about it?  I like to use myself in my […]

An Irish Gathering

October 3, 2009 by · 2 comments

Donal Mahoney Photo: lepiaf.geo Thomas said you can’t go home again but I did for my sister and the christening of her first. Everyone, on folding chairs, against the whitewashed basement walls, was there for ham and beef and beer, the better bourbons, music, argument and talk. Maura came; she hadn’t married. Paddy, fist around […]

Reluctance

October 2, 2009 by · 4 comments

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer The Spare Tire is constantly afraid that one day it will be his turn to start carrying the weight of the car in which he has been riding. Once a while back he whispered his fears to the windshield wipers but in silent judgment they just shook their heads.