Nut Jobs and Other Head Cases by Fred Russell Nowadays when people seem to be talking to themselves in the street, it usually turns out…
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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 by Fred Russell Ravens squawking In the trees Or hopping on the ground To get their fill Of putrid swill They eat They drink…
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…
Now that my Israeli cable provider has dropped ESPN, where I occasionally used to watch an eight-ball tournament, being a pool player myself, I have…
Bill Maher rubs me the wrong way. I get him and John Oliver back to back from my cable provider and it turns out that…
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…
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…
(From the American Idol Archives) by Fred Russell Ryan: Good evening, America. Three contestants. Three dreams. Three journeys. You will vote. You will decide. You’ll…
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