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Writing The Worlds Language
FWM Online Magazine was founded in 2010 as an outlet for writers to share their voice. A member of the Flexwriters Creative Network, FWM Online features topics that range from author interviews to exploratory essays to articles on world and social events. FWM is also interested in writers who [...]
Jade Miramontes
Jade Miramontes was born at Osan AFB in Taejon, South Korea. She came here to the U.S in February of 1980, and has been in California ever since. Jade has had a love affair with writing and literature since she was a young child; and won several creative writing awards. In her Freshman year [...]
6 May 2013
… on our Second Amendment. No doubt you all know about the tragic attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. None of you will hear me say that [...]
8 Dec 2012
Dear Readers, as I am sure most, if not all of you know, quite a few of my fellow Californians attempted to abolish the death penalty here in this state. [...]
Writers Digest
WATCHING THE SUNSET IS WONDERFUL By Walter William Safar A few years ago, Deutsche Welle wrote about an Ethiopian restaurant inBerlin, where an Ethiopian woman worked nearly 24/7, thus earning all of 500€ in over a year and a half. The African cocoa industry is experiencing a boom on the backs of...
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Long lines or short? Poetry’s origins are in song and chant that made their impact by sound. It remains, for me, an art of the spoken word: that it’s seen in print on the book page or the computer screen or by Kindle is a convenience but not an end. We need to hear...
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Sit in the plush arms of a sofa in Dachau A candle breathes wisps of blue-grey into the morning in Dachau Tardy German versions of yank-pop on the perpetual stereo in Dachau You’ve had a lovely breakfast in Dachau Do they call them ‘cupola,’ spires that rise from an older culture to a new-day...
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Richard Dawkins proposes a “spectrum of probabilities” for answering the question, “How much — or how little — do you believe in God?”: 1.0 Strong theist. 100 per cent probability of God. 2.0 De facto theist. Very high probability but short of 100 per cent. 3.0 Leaning towards theism. Higher than 50 per cent...
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by Alabaster Deplume Liz Green is a marvel of a curmudgeon. As I look on through the studio window, down upon the audience, the stage, the radio gubbins, I see she’s sat ready to spit at anything that doesn’t move, in a garden of well-wishing colleagues and contemporaries, to whom, I know, she feels...
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“I’ve seen it recently said on LinkedIn that it’s wrong to limit poetry through any kind of definition, wrong to say that anything isn’t poetry.” I understand the thinking behind this – and maybe at times I’ve been too willing to make absolute statements about poetry. But if anything can be poetry, why...
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According to some academics, it’s meaningless to ask what a writer meant, or at least, pointless because we can’t tell. Maybe nothing means anything. This is an attitude that could only exist in academia. People everywhere else are engaged in the risky, uncertain business of guessing what other people mean all the time. A...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. (Philosophical Investigations, 1953) Two philosophical camps emerged from the last century: The first camp views philosophers as those who endeavor to answer profound and fundamental questions, or to construct systems for doing so. The second...
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The Jetsam essays by Lara Biyuts excerpt The Winged Man-Lion Seeing the bronze statue of David by Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488) and musing. It is claimed that Verrocchio modeled the statue after one handsome pupil in his workshop, namely, young Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). As far as we know, Verrocchio...
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The house of the greatest restaurant owner on earth has no kitchen. Last time we were here, Morena took us to hospital. Sam had contracted a frightening illness, from his stubborn refusal to rest, his shattered matchbox-transit van, and a lunatic schedule on the road. 5am, and the hospital was closed. She got us...
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