by dave petraglia | May 17, 2015 | CULTURE, PERSONALITIES |
(First published in Prairie Schooner – 5/15/2015) She never appeared in the play he wrote about her. When her character left the story in protest, ‘Dreams of an Indigo Wind’ was abandoned in 1951 by Tennessee Williams the same year he began work on it....
by dave petraglia | Apr 7, 2015 | CULTURE |
(First published in eFiction India – Vol 3 Issue 7 – April 2015) White folk were dying. Massah blamed poorly tanned hides. Lady Livy was sure it was fouled coffee. Or the bacon. But the more rice was planted, the more white people died. All other...
by dave petraglia | Mar 31, 2015 | CULTURE |
Selected for ‘The Best Small Fictions of 2015’ by Queen’s Ferry Press – Fall 2015 Sue’s Reviews of GoodReads says of the 55 Winners, “Some I loved: The Garden Sky stands out in my mind and I will read that many more times.”...
by dave petraglia | Nov 13, 2014 | CULTURE |
(Published first in Jersey Devil Press – Issue #60 – November 2014) The old 411 is that any food picked up from the floor within 5 seconds is cool. Recently, science say the theory for sure don’t suck. So short, 5 seconds. What can happen in 5...
by dave petraglia | Jun 7, 2014 | ARTS & LEISURE, CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY |
(Originally published in theNewerYork, May 6, 2014) The Da Vinci Code. Hit book and movie series. But there’s also a little-known repository of the master’s documents that have eluded public scrutiny. Until now. And it took the recent discovery of an...
by dave petraglia | Jun 1, 2014 | CULTURE, EVOLUTION |
(First published in Dark Matter Journal, Summer 2014 Issue #5) The Paleo Diet is the hottest thing since sliced bread. No thanks to a cliché as old as prehistory itself, which has brutish cave dwellers gnawing on hunks of unrecognizable quivering, bloody meats, in the...
