memoir – Tampa Review

Maria Ivkovic Manuccia

June 1, 2014 by utpress Leave a Comment

BALKAN SHEEP by Maria Ivkovic Manuccia There are plenty of ways to feel like an outsider; for me it was that I was a Balkan girl growing up among the lily white. Not all white is white-white, which we Eastern Europeans, particularly the Balkans, understand. Growing up, I attended Catholic elementary school in a Chicago suburb. … [Read more…]

Amanda Leduc

April 1, 2014 by utpress Leave a Comment

FREQUENT FLYERS by Amanda Leduc PLEASE PRESERVE MY TESTICLES FOR THE QUEEN. The nurses get this note from the King of England just before the doctors discharge him to the street. He’s been in and out of the ward for the past two days. “Malingering,” the doctor says. To exaggerate mental or physical symptoms for … [Read more…]