The Emperor of 2nd Street

By Leo Hines 7:45 a.m. on Key South-Bay island meant tourists buses, motor-scooters and bikers were hogging the highways. The harbor was a ball of confusion with anxious tour groups meandering to their rental boats. Long  crooked lines were at the Amusement park.The snow birds had arrived. Smiley Lehman, age 18, needed to hustle with …

A Key About History

By Alex Andy Phuong   The past and present connect by The significance of recording history through writing. Manuscripts can save the past from obscurity. Because of the subjective nature of memory, recounting historical events could result in writing that contain fictional elements. Written work that authors compose could reflect a distorted perception of themselves …

Key Elegies

By LA Felleman   Jumble drawer puzzle you turned and opened I wish I could recall what Were they important those objects you secured? Have I left them vulnerable or locked away never to be seen by me again? Forgive me key to something or other for my failing to recognize I make this promise …

“Ode in the Key of B”

By Thomas Page I am student teaching a senior level class in Washington, DC. They have to write some poems on these prompts. I decided to try all 30 of them. However, I will not say what the prompt was but what it number was. Prompt #13 I am surrounded by things beginning with you …