Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Issue of December 13, 2003

7 articles in this issue.


Duplexes built to benefit orphans by Alexandra Queen — News

Nick Groen Realty has donated land in a posh $400,000+ neighborhood and others have donated materials and labor so that a humanitarian organization can raise money to benefit orphans and abandoned children in Romania.

Backyard Astronomy: Orion (2003-12-13) by Cheryl Haimann — Nonfiction

The biggest, baddest of the winter constellations struts his stuff.

Dear Sam by Tedi Trindle — Op_ed

A letter of loss and hope, from generation to generation.

Oort Cloud Oddities: Grandpa Queen and the Chicken of Doom by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed

The final Mes de los Muertos piece. A story about the struggle between a man of good and a chicken of evil. Thank God for the wooden leg.

Hamtramck Walk 01 by Amy Probst — Op_ed travel

I am standing on my back porch, marveling at what turns out to be a sunrise as beautiful as the ones on vacation, over lakes, or fields of green. Marveling, because this is a Hamtramck sunrise, and it's never occurred to me before that crumbly urban areas had such things as sunrises. Or sunsets.

Call of Destiny v8p9 by Josh Brown — Serial

Vol. 8 - The Call - Part 9 <br> In the midst of the final confrontation, time is halted and Brand finds himself face to face with a strange man that holds the answers to more than a few of Brand's questions. Will this strange man help Brand, or hinder him completely?

Dreamer 28 by Sand Pilarski — Serial

Sleeping in a tent can make you wonder why on earth people ever built houses. Sully finds that camping out with five nieces and nephews under the age of ten can be enough fun to nearly make her forget that she never had any children of her own.

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