all wounds

by Joseph A Farina time never healsit revealsevery daggerthat waited to strikethe whispered conspiraciesfor your ruineach rejectionall forgotten momentsand failed opportunitiesfaces at departurescold words voiced in angerthe pain at every endingand every instancethat said no © 2023 Joseph A Farina  All rights reserved. Click or tap here to see Joseph A Farina’s profile.

50 years after the summer of love

by Joseph A Farina days of cigarettes and scentsrigour without effortgirls exploring short nightsin bluejeans, leather and lacemusic capturing rebellionexpressed in your handraised in peace not in fistsbelief in a future where we would existchildren of new edenunder St Francis’s  skywhere flowers were powerwith love of one summerthat sated the thirst of our soulsquenched and abandonedthroughContinue reading “50 years after the summer of love”

Spring 2023 Edition

We are pleased to announce our Spring 2023 edition of confetti. CONTRIBUTORS Fiction by:  Alice Archer, William Baker, P.A. Farrell, Mary Walsh Foley, J.P.J. Fox, Calla Gold, Elizabeth Liang, margie marek, Axel Martens, Don Noel, Judy Voss Non-fiction by:  Susan Bloch, Janice Boland Poetry by:  C. J. Anderson-Wu, W Roger Carlisle, Shuvra Das, D.F., Joseph A Farina, John Grey, Lisa O’Neil Guerci, Edward Lee, margie marek, Lawrence Miles, Chaya Nadi, Malaena Nahmias, Diana Raab, Nick Romeo, Gregg Shapiro, Dominik Slusarczyk, Marianne Tefft, Terry Trowbridge Plays by:  Mark Knight Cover art by:  Janice Boland FEATURES William Teets,Continue reading “Spring 2023 Edition”

Let Those Engines Roar

by Joseph A Farina old men’s dreams cruisedown Woodward Avenueromanticized Detroit iron muscleagainst a soundtrack of Beach Boys tunesengines hum and lake pipes roarbig three legendary wheelsof their mythic youthful yearsCorvettes, Stingrays, T-birds, ‘stangs442s, 409s, GTOs and little Deuce Coupetheir fantasy summertime drivesfueling teenaged wet dreamschromed engined chromed wheeledAmerican expressions, power and artin fiberglass, sheetContinue reading “Let Those Engines Roar”

Spring 2022 Edition

We are pleased to announce our Spring 2022 edition of confetti. CONTRIBUTORS Fiction by:  Catherine Alexander, Alex R. Encomienda, J.P.J. Fox, Terry John Malik, Eadbhard McGowan, Malaena Nahmias, Dana Trick, Judy Voss Non-fiction by:  Jeffrey Feingold Poetry by:   Angela Acosta, Bidisha Chakraborty, Maid Čorbić, PW Covington, Oriada Dajko, TAK Erzinger, Joseph A Farina, John Grey, Lisa O’Neil Guerci, Jennifer Ruth Jackson, George Perreault, Mahbubat Salahudeen, Sunil Sharma, Pat St. Pierre, Linda Tancs Play by:   Veronica Brown See the full Table of Contents.

Fall 2021 Edition

We are pleased to announce our Fall 2021 edition of confetti. CONTRIBUTORS Fiction by:  Subrata Das, J.P.J. Fox, Christina Hoag, Mark Jabaut, Richard Natale, Niles Reddick, Daniel Tarker, Judy Voss, Patricia Walkow Non-fiction by:  Barbara Alfaro Poetry by:  Dee Allen, John Carew, Maid Čorbić, Joseph A Farina, Shaswata Gangopadhyay, Norbert Góra, John Grey, Lisa O’Neil Guerci, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Joan McNerney, Bruce McRae, Arik Mitra, P. Muralidharan, Katharine Schulz, Gabriel Sebastian Play by:  Dave Patton See the full Table of Contents.

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