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THE UNCONVENTIONAL COURIER



Bridge
Written by Nandan (Twitter: @NDdreamFactory Instagram: @nandansdreamfactory) “A man is ethical only when life, such, is sacred to him." ―...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20236 min read


Correlations
Written by Ian C. Smith “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.” – Jim Rohn In...
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20233 min read


Abaka and the Intruder
Written by Ashwini Gangal (Twitter: @writerashwini) The role of any person in this world is to be themselves without damaging the rest....
Teresa Carstetter
May 29, 20239 min read


Talking Heads: April 2023
What role do themes play in your work? Ashwini Gangal: Theme is everything. I read in one of the Paris Review author interviews (I can’t...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 28, 20233 min read


Cover Artist Spotlight: (Tete Depunk
We at The Unconventional Courier wish to thank the writer/artist/photographer Tetè DePunk for her bright photograph of Trinity College...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20231 min read


Surrounding Discord & Other Poems
By R. Gerry Fabian (Twitter @GerryFabian2 IG: @Gery3397) Surrounding Discord I feel the pulsing. in the day; it is in half notes. As the...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20231 min read


Limestone Country & Other Poems
By William Doreski (Twitter/Instagram: @doreskiW) Limestone Country If I had died of old age while young enough to enjoy it, the rain...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20234 min read


The Cruelty of Yaweh & Other Poems
By Mark J. Mitchell The Cruelty of Yaweh In the cool of an evening just outside Eden, Cain returned from the altar and his mother asked,...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20233 min read


The Conscript & Other Poems
By S.T. Brant The Conscript Thoughts in the blanks of the Collected Larkin Darkness lunges into day to distort and plague the meaning of...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20232 min read


"The Maenad Learns to Worship" and "The Ritual"
By Michelle Lizet Flores (Twitter: @shellyflowers) The Ritual Begin by boiling water. Pour a tablespoon of honey into your mug let a tea...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20232 min read


Games They Play & Other Poems
By Fabrice Poussin (Facebook: Fabrice Poussin) Games They Play They rush to know the outcomes glaring at neon lights in the arcade their...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20233 min read


Scenery
By Blanka Pillár (Twitter, Instagram: @blankaiza) “In a world full of temporary things, you are a perpetual feeling.” ― Sanober Khan I...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20233 min read


My Life in Postmodernism
By John Guzlowski (Twitter: @johnguzlowski) “Literature is news that stays news.” ― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading On Tuesday, August 24,...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20239 min read


Hotoli and Botoli
By Ashwini Gangal (Twitter: @writerashwini) “Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20239 min read


Boomerang
By Nick Young (Twitter: @NickYou87166031 Instagram: @zenblues) “It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place.” — Cornell...
Teresa Carstetter
Mar 14, 20238 min read


Cover Artist Spotlight: Imelda Wei Ding Lo (Fortunus Games)
Acknowledgement: We at The Unconventional Courier wish to thank to extremely talented and diligent artist and illustrator, Imelda Wei...
Teresa Carstetter
Jan 30, 20231 min read


Talking Heads: Inspiration
How do you approach writing a difficult piece? Imelda Wei Ding Lo (Editor): My approach to writing a difficult piece is simple. First, I...
Teresa Carstetter
Jan 23, 20233 min read


Five Poems
By Yewande Akinse (Twitter/Instagram: @ADwande) Time capture wombal canal heaves continuity within its chambers as a child is born...
Teresa Carstetter
Jan 23, 20232 min read


Spontaneous Combustion
By John Horváth If I say seven miles southeast from Memphis in the Delta where cotton bites through pickers’ hands to bone or where jazz...
Teresa Carstetter
Jan 23, 20235 min read


Prime Directive for an Unwitting Time Bomb
By Todd Matson Come on, poker face, you can do this. Get your ducks in a row. Deny, dissociate, suppress, project, compartmentalize,...
Teresa Carstetter
Jan 23, 20232 min read
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