Fiction
Rebecca’s Window
On a Saturday morning, April 13, 1974 to be exact, a thought came to me to visit my maternal grandparents, Simon and Rebecca Tekirian. I had nothing planned that day, and sometimes an unplanned Saturday […]
Fiction
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Hollywood villains in Damascus
Ted de Corsia! He was one of the more memorable character actors with almost star ranking – at least in my personal movie dictionary – who played villains in the movies I watched in the […]
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Introducing Victoria Atamian Waterman’s debut novel Who She Left Behind
Who She Left Behind is a captivating historical fiction novel spanning multiple generations. It is set in various time periods and locations, immersing readers into the declining days of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian […]
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The Princess of Peace and the Hawk People
“Dedicted to Nairi” There once was a calm and beautiful forest in a land far away. Many peaceful people lived there, along with many animals. The land had many different trees, but also grassy meadows […]
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Funeral in Beirut
We are walking by the Riad Solh Square. I see colors on the other side of the square, mostly darker shades of gray and green created by the old houses and shops. I hear passersby, […]
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The sun won’t stay behind the cloud
Glendale, California — 1987 Varto arranged the last bottle of pills on the shelf and flexed her fingers. At eighty-one, she was just as strong on the outside as she was on the inside. She […]
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Animal Behavior
No matter what country they live in or how many figures they make a year, there seems to be one universal truth that moms and dads everywhere know; that at some point, their children will […]
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Maria and Michelle
Harvard Square is one of those places where it’s easy to camouflage, simply because she’s a museum of all different types of people; artists selling their visions on the sidewalk, protesters enjoying the sound of […]
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God’s Masterpieces
“I swear, if the air conditioning breaks down today, heads will roll.” “If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.” Chris Leclair, a staff writer for the Laconia Daily […]
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Real People
The first couple years or so of young adulthood, to put it simply, is a weird time, especially when old classmates and neighbors creep all over the globe like a spilled drink spreading on the […]