Bunker
by Jonathan Kemmerer-ScovnerPeople were huddled in their offices, whispering. They glanced up with intense faces, returned to private conversation.
This is it, I knew. It’s happening today
In Memoriam: Denise Gess
by Julia MacDonnell Chang| It is with great sadness that we report that our friend and long-time Philadelphia Stories board member, Denise Gess, passed away on August 22. |
BJ Schaffer is Dead
by Bernard J. SchafferTwenty years ago I was famous. Not so famous that my torrid affairs with young starlets were covered by national magazines, and being thirteen at the time, that wasn’t really much of a problem. I was famous enough that strangers followed me around the Montgomery Mall when I went shopping.
The Witch and The Clown
by Judilyn BrownI hate my job. As evening supervisor of a one-hundred bed nursing
home, I oversee the work of one other nurse and ten nurses’ aides.
The (O)ther Kahn
by Ona RussellHe was not the one disfigured in youth, the one who rose to fame, the one whose story has been told in books and film. He was not the celebrated architect, Louis I. Kahn. He was Lou’s brother, Oscar, a man whose unsung life was unexpectedly cut short, a man I never met but for whom I was named. He was my grandfather, and after all these silent, shadowy years, his faded image is starting to clear.
Self-Publishing In A Nut Shell
by Karen E. Quinones MillerSo you’ve poured your heart out on paper, and now you’re ready to get it published. Congratulations! But if you think spending months, or years, on a manuscript is hard, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Get ready for the really hard work. Publishing, and then SELLING your book.
The Room Where We Go in the Summer
by Gloria Barone RosanioYou didn’t smoke or have a chronic disease. You waltzed around the kitchen table, tried Viagra, played cards, and nurtured your African violets. You began a publishing empire called the "Brown Envelopes" filled with jokes, war stories, and Reader’s Digest clips. You collected, copied and mailed the Brown Envelopes every month to 50 friends, acquaintances and Army buddies.






