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Presenting "Peculiar Perspectives" by Ed Ahern

Peculiar Perspectives Book Cover Twenty-four glimpses into the absurd, the tender, and the beautifully human. These twenty-four short poems are personal rather than political, reflective rather than polemic-quiet observations shaped by a life that has been, at times, unruly, uneven, and richly human. They invite the reader not to debate or defend, but simply to recognize: to nod in wry…

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Topinabee

By Ed Ahern When my age was barely in double digitsI walked alone on a little used railroad trackthrough woods and along a lake shoreto the quiet village of TopinabeeI spoke little but looked closely atthe summer somnolent goings on.Then bought and ate ice cream,and clambered up the embankmentfor the two miles and some return.I was barely missed or noticed.What I saw on the tracks, discardedor…

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"The Biltmore Mirror" And Other Works by E. Adhern

"The Biltmore Mirror" And Other Works by E. Adhern

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over four hundred fifty stories and poems published so far, and seven books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of eight review editors. The Biltmore Mirror More than half a century agothe Providence Biltmore sold…

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They Don't Talk Much Anymore

By Ed Ahern Their intimacy speaks in the unsaid. opposition unraised, disagreement stilled, stifled correction or contradiction, permission for those close to rest in the wrong while choke-chaining the harsher truths. Little silent helping things saying that courtesy is an inadequate term to explain the need to hold one another in loving stasis. Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years…

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New Poetry: Ed Ahern

Leavings

The elderly are good at dropping off. Memories dim and extinguish, dexterity declines into assistance, friends involuntarily depart, houses are left for condos after furniture is carted off.

The old if lucky do acquire an absorption in the moment and enjoyment of the present, to offset a problematic future and a bittersweet past.

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Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over two hundred fifty stories and poems published so far, and six books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where he sits on the review board and manages a posse of six review editors.

[gabicoatsworth]

We had another great meeting at Barnes & Noble yesterday, with seventeen of us gathered to exchange ideas and recommendations. Alison McBain, Elizabeth Chatsworth, Ed Ahern and I bragged — just a bit — about our time travel anthology, When to Now, for which we did a reading and signing over the weekend at the Inaugural Saugatuck StoryFest in Westport.

If you like meeting authors face to face,…

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Embers

The church smelled of old wood and incense. About ninety people were bunched around a casket at the front of the church. They were twenty rows back from the mourners. Jack had spotted her, hesitated, then walked over and sat down next to her. Carole winced, then shrugged. “We shouldn’t be sitting together, Jack.” “The gossip won’t be much worse than if we were separated by the aisle.” They were…

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Facebook Findings - A Poem by Ed Ahern

Facebook Findings – A Poem by Ed Ahern

Facebook Findings

Press and like the number five. Jane the virgin on Twitter This spoon takes away the effects of the shakes

When you get fresh sheets and you just shaved your legs.

This dude spent eight years growing a chair Shannon has exactly 200 friends. Kakistocracy- government by the worst available people.

You are convicted by your complicity. Did Jesus leave us a tip to diabetes? This is…

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