Category: reading
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“California Conquered What the Krauts Couldn’t” by Todd Anderson
Boot camp was a bitch in heat. The young man with interrupted college had matriculated enough units while at Rutgers, and more importantly, had stripped down and reassembled his M1 under immediate duress from his D.I. in impressive enough time…
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Writing Contest Entry Update
We’re less than a month away from the kickoff of our first annual summer writing contests. Writers should NOT SUBMIT their work until the entry dates are open. Each month focuses on a different writing art: June=Poetry July=Nonfiction August=Fiction Entry…
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From the Editor: My Little Someone (celebrating Mother’s Day)
American First Magazine wishes all of the moms out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! Raising children is an important job, and nothing compares to it. I found myself reflecting on this as I wrote a little something about what…
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When Fascism Comes to California, It Will Come in the Guise of Anti-Fascism by Todd Anderson
Orange shards of sparks flew upwards over the campus quad. This bonfire, like the many other college campus bonfires across California, raged. It melted media like candles: the books and DVDs, the CD-ROMs and plastic flash-drives, the unbound stacks of…
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19 Minutes by Michael E. Theroux with Artwork by Pamela Theroux-Hanief
Image © Pamelia Theroux-Hanief, NY 2023“… Let’s see if the world is still there…” and our bedroom TV world-window complies with an image straight out of Hollywood: smoke, uniforms everywhere, something about a 747 …Six or seven channel switches later,…
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The Duke of Six Thirteen by J. Rawley
(This is a true story. It happened in a large hospital in the capital city of a state on the east coast and the events transpired so many years (decades) ago, that I feel confident nearly everyone involved is dead.…
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Societal Decline by Michael Theroux
It is possible for a people to become ashamed of their own success. It is apparent that an entire race can tire of that process by which the strong rise, the weak fail and fade. Morality has interpreted Godliness to…
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Raise the Bar by Lawrence Woll
Raise the bar but not too farWe’ve only just begunWant to learn but have concernWe want to have our funDon’t complicate, we’ll hesitateAnd never learn a thingReach for a star that’s too farCan’t get the golden ring.They work to change…
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Bleed Red, White And Blue by Lawrence Woll
They want to change the countryFor folks like me and youThey think that they know betterWith all the things they doOpen borders, “sanctuary”–Just a few of their tricksTeaching Kids they can be trans…Man they are really sick.Now the crazy liberalsWant…
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Balance by Helga Kidder
Wind strikes the chimesnext to the patio door, wakensthe birds for breakfast as cloudsgrey the sky. Snow forecast.My mind wavers between natureand the hum of the heat pump.Leaves huddle against the brick walland liriope shrivel in the cold.Another tornado rushing…
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