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Contents of Current Issue
Pondering How Much My Novel Is Worth
by Kelly Huddleston
Excerpt from the upcoming novel
Night Train
(to be published in 2010 by Open Books)
by Donald O'Donovan
Not To Scale
The personal price of a
custody & child support verdict
by Noah Kaplowitz
Two poems by
Mitchell Waldman
"whuzzat?"
"Another Night on Earth"
"FUNAKOSHI AND THE TENGU"
Okinawa, 1909
Meiji Period
Santiago del Dardano Turann
If you can' t join them, why not beat them?
Disgusted with big banks' record profits and huge bonuses,
Huffington Post Publisher Arianna Huffington
suggests that you simply
Move Your Money
to smaller, local banking institutions.
Apparently, Jimmie Stewart would agree...
LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD TRAVELED:
A RETROSPECTIVE OF TWENTY-NINE YEARS
A lifelong passion for
Titanic: The Story of a Legend
by W. E. Brower Jr.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Originally published in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
by C. S. Van Winkle, 1819
2007 Open Books Electronic Edition
Excerpt from the novel American Blow Job
To be published in 2010 by Open Books
by Teri Louise Kelly
Calico Pennants (Open Books)
by David A. Ross
Reviewed by Joyce Norman
Moronic Ox talks with
Donald O'Donovan,
author of the newly-published novel
Night Train
Excerpt from the novel Noah's Wife
Published by Chalet Publishers, LTD
by T. K. Thorne
Twilight
by David A. Ross
"k"
by John-Patrick Ayson
Transitions:
On the Road Again toward Nonconformity
by Susie Duncan Sexton
Advice on the Choice of a Mistress
by Benjamin Franklin
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Writers & Contributors
Appearing in
The Moronic Ox
Keith Ainsworth
John-Patrick Ayson
Brittany Bellinger
W. E. Brower
Benjamin Franklin
Kahlil Gibran
Kelly Huddleston
Washington Irving
B. Jung
Noah Kaplowitz
Teri Louis Kelly
Kremena
Dimitris Kyriakis
Brigitte Martin
Lindsay Metter
Bill Moyers
Joyce Norman
Donald O'Donovan
bl pawelek
Lakota Phillips
Edgar Allen Poe
Aaron Quinn
David A. Ross
Terry Ross
Linda Sands
Susie Duncan Sexton
Alfred Lord Tennyson
T. K. Thorne
Santiago del Dardano Turann
Omoruyi Uwuigiaren
Aileen Valasquez
Joe B. Vaughn Jr.
Jesse Ventura
Mitchell Waldman
Vincent Yanez
"I’d like to see a world where the luxury and privilege of the few is not predicated on the misery and poverty of the many."
~Donald O'Donovan
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