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Deciding to write a pandemic journal with monthly issues featuring essays, short stories, and poems. Describing the background and motivation which led me to embark on this project.

“Topography of Kingston Hill”—essay on Potter Wood and Biscuit City Preserves.
“Tefft Hill Pilgrimage”—essay on the Tefft Hill stone circle and Old Mountain Field.

“Mary’s Lord of Misrule”— tale in verse about John Thorogood, a 16th-century musician in the Courts of Henry VIII and Mary Tudor.
“Late Reflections”—poem

Novella about Allen Moore’s 19th century Long Island mansion and the development of Plainedge and Bethpage Long Island at the turn of the 20th century.

Memories of circuses and clowns.

“First and Second Contact”—science fiction short story.
“Brainwashed by Circumstance”—morality tale.
“Waiting for the Next Bus”—a conversation at a bus stop.
“To Lose is to Win”—poem about leaving Afghanistan

Novella about a Classical Roman poet.
Narrative poems about the Scythian peoples.

Essays: Reflections on the Koran. Representation Versus Abstraction.
“My Own Culture War” and “Consensus on Existence” (poems).

Kasch—essay about civilizations of the Niger River.
“Search for Kasch”—poem