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

Issue of February 27, 2017

7 articles in this issue.


Reflections from the Newsreel 16: A Sin Against Humanity by Carl Wade Thompson — Column poem news

Regarding the hate crime in St. Louis: the desecration of a Jewish cemetery.

How To Misread a Map by Terry Petersen — Cover story essay travel

One way, four-way stop, merge, yield, right turn only, freeway, HOV -- wait, what?

Brussels Sprouts: Who Knew? by Bernie Pilarski — Food Brussels sprouts

An amazing yet often-maligned vegetable, the Brussels sprout finds its way into Bernie's yard.

Betty and Estelle, Part Three by Ron Singer — Memoir family

This four-part memoir chronicles aspects of the lives of Ron Singer's mother and aunt.

The Road by Shola Balogun — Poem unrhymed

Shola Balogun, playwright, poet and writer whose creative Muse is the Mystic ladder of the Yoruba world and Judeo-Christian thought, is from Yoruba South-Western part of Nigeria, West Africa.

Out with the Trash 06 by Sand Pilarski — Serial fiction life relationships

January 2 has turned out to be much better than New Year's Day, and Emily is ready for life to turn happy again...

Castaways, Part 2 by Tyler Willson — Short science fiction

To be able to hear another's thought is like being suddenly put inside another's skin ...

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