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Kristin Dimitrova Photo: mikebaird No, he wasn’t fat or skinny, tall or short, he wasn’t good or evil, but only neutral, like a geometric point – no mass, but how it pierces the sheet.

Photo: Albena Popova ” John Mayer ft. Taylor Swift – Half Of My Heart (Official Video) “ Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Simon Perchik Photo: claire1066 No one gets hurt, you pump into a parachute, cup one hand to float down, the other as if water could rub off the way the sky still gushes from the once blue Earth and your sleeve tearing apart

Martha Gehringer Photo: Tony the Misfit (Isaiah 58:5) The trees               scrub the winter sky—               scour away the grey—                             and I, I bow my head                        like               a reed.

Photo: Albena Popova ” The Hoosiers- Fantastic New Edit / Video for Choices” Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Julie Barbour Photo: ciadefoto I long for you, the sad heat of your skin, the flakes of skin in your hair, your shallow breath when you sleep, your sour breath haunting the room. I long for your voice, grouchy, uncertain,

Photo: Albena Popova ” Kelis – 4th Of July (Fireworks) “ Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Interview with Sue Nichol by Galya Mladenova Sue Nichol is a British artist who paints places with which she has strong associations and knows very well. She’s attracted to the ‘edges of the land’ – fabulous and varied coastlines or the rocky edges found throughout the British landscape. She paints using oils, acrylics and ink […]

Photo: Albena Popova ” SIA – Clap Your Hands “ Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

David Chorlton Photo: Matt From London Before we know it, the subject changes. Nobody intended to bring this up, but suicide slips into the room as an uninvited visitor so we let it happen, make a place, and sit back as it dominates the conversation. We all have a story. There was the performance artist […]

Photo: Albena Popova ” FENECH-SOLER – Stop and Stare “ Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Shae Davidson Photo: Joi “There was a river in Ohio that caught fire,” Gordon said as he poured sugar into his coffee. “Near Cleveland, I think. So many chemicals dumped in year after year—one day it just went.” Gordon was a reliable source for obscure information whether useful, disturbing, or just puzzling. His family had […]

Photo: Albena Popova ” Drake – Find Your Love “ Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Julia Spirirdonova Photo:pinksherbet Life sucks. If someone tries to tell you otherwise, don’t buy it. One has to be a complete idiot to be an optimist. I feel like dying when they tell me “Your life is yet to begin.” Couldn’t they come up with something better? Hellooo, not my life is yet to begin; […]

CONTESTS #1. Contests announced within the framework of the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation The following three competitions are in line with the EKF’s efforts in supporting the popularization of the contemporary Bulgarian literature abroad and the art of translation itself. They are realized with the generous support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation (http://www.americaforbulgaria.org/page/home). KRUSTAN DYANKOV […]

Photo: Albena Popova ” The Wanted – All Time Low (Official) “ Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Charlotte Pence Photo: Clearly Ambiguous Nothing lasts, we know, so why do I lift The box turtle from the middle of the road To the side where crab grass pocks asphalt crumbs? Picking it up, I feel the tight-fisted weight Of some creature shrunken inside, desperate To be set down. I hold it away from […]

Photo: Albena Popova ” Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – We No Speak Americano “ Selected by Mega Dance FM Radio

Photo: in Honest people don’t hide their deeds. Photo: in A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

Erin Chandler Photo: CarbonNYC Samantha told me my heart had been broken three times. Samantha’s the psychic medium I talked to the other day. I know everybody thinks ‘yeah, yeah’ but she was good and she was right. My heart has been broken three times. All three times felt pretty much the same… lost, lonely, […]