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Posts published by “Fred Russell”

Fred Russell is the pen name of an American-born writer living in Israel. His novels Rafi's World (Fomite Press), dealing with Israel's emerging criminal class, and The Links in the Chain (CCLaP), a thriller set in New York with an Arab-Israel background, were both published in 2014. A collection of his opinion pieces called Short Takes: American Notes (Scars) appeared as a chapbook in 2015 and his longer stories and essays may be read in Third Coast, Polluto, Fiction on the Web, Wilderness House Literary Review, Ontologica, and Unlikely Stories: Episode 4.

Ravens

Ravens by Fred Russell Ravens squawking In the trees Or hopping on the ground To get their fill Of putrid swill They eat They drink…

New Words

by Fred Russell How are new words popularized? Mostly in the media, but journalists are only the middlemen of language, picking up on words and…

Pro Ball

  Here’s how it works: It starts in the pickup games In the schoolyard or the park Where everyone can see That you’re a player…

Bleistein at the Royal Ballet

As boorish as it sounds I have to say That there is An element of silliness In the classical male ballet. I mean What exactly…

Voltaire in England

by Fred Russell 4 January 2015 In May 1726 Voltaire sailed up the Thames, London-bound. He was thirty-two at the time, a scrawny Frenchman with…




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