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Category: History

My Body is a Crime by Risa Peris (Poem)

February 10, 2025 periswriter

Podcast Memento mori, remember death. Do you remember life in death? I remember death in life. A body tortured is…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Poem, Political, Social Issues

The Politician (Story by Risa Peris)

August 5, 2020 Brian Coyle

You see the thing about Yuri was that he was not a high-ranking or particularly effective KGB officer. Back in…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political

The Books (Story by Risa Peris)

July 10, 2020 Brian Coyle

  “Sergei…I was able to make some thin soup out of the two potatoes and one carrot I scavenged for.…

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Posted in: Fiction, History

Blue (Story by Risa Peris)

May 21, 2020 Brian Coyle

I was painted blue. War time blue. I was like all my Pictish clan. We were to storm Hadrian’s Wall.…

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Posted in: Adventure, Fiction, History, Religion

Deep Shrug (Story by Risa Peris)

May 19, 2020 Brian Coyle

I was quite alone on the train. A nurse in pale gray heading for South England. I was called on…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political

The Body (Story by Risa Peris)

March 17, 2020 periswriter

I had never seen a body hacked to pieces. I approached stealthily. Like a cat about to pounce on prey.…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Social Issues

England and the Thunder (Story by Risa Peris)

February 20, 2020 Brian Coyle

What do you do when you are hungry? You seek. The overeater goes to the grocery store or restaurant. The…

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Posted in: Dark Humour, Fiction, History

An Angel (Story by Risa Peris)

February 7, 2020 Brian Coyle

It was a thin soup with some kind of strange looking dumplings in it. Angelino was expecting something unctuous and…

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Posted in: Crime, Fiction, History, Religion
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Civil War (bp coyle)

September 4, 2019 coylewriter

‘The worst kind of war is a civil war,’ Granny constantly told us when we were young. She had lived…

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Posted in: Fiction, History

The Weight (Story by Risa Peris)

July 16, 2019 Brian Coyle

Meredith Von Wieth uttered what she thought was a true and innocent statement. “The Palestinian people have rights – to…

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Posted in: Fiction, History, Political, Religion

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