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

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The Eden Paradox: Featured Blog by Barry Kirwan

Barry Kirwan shares some ideas about life after death in science fiction stories in this week's featured blog.

Adventures of a Grownup 07 by JH Mae

If you don't know what life is about, good and bad alike, how will you prepare for it?

Caribousmom: Featured Blog by Wendy Robards

In this week's Featured Blog, Wendy Robards talks about the charitable organization Gone Reading, and its work providing funding for libraries around the world.

Infinitebook: Featured Blog by J.J. Green

This week's featured blog by J.J. Green tells us that "...evidence of our ancestors lies yet to be found, beneath ice and water."

Adventures of a Grownup 06 by JH Mae

Have we evolved into a culture of fantasy and nit-picking?

I Must Be Off! Featured Blog by Christopher Allen

Should a person know to pronounce words correctly when they visit a foreign land?

Adventures of a Grownup 05 by JH Mae

Don't give up on being young -- you can't bring it back when it's gone.

Adventures of a Grownup 04 by JH Mae

Should we complain about misfortunes?

The News From Gridleyville: Featured Blog by Sam Gridley

The Piker Press is pleased to begin featuring blog entries from our listed bloggers. This week, Sam Gridley and his tangled web of great fortune...

Adventures of a Grownup by JH Mae

JH Mae is a feature journalist and short fiction writer based in rural northern New York.

Benchwarming 2 by Barry Udoff

Bench Warming in New York is a seating chart to a collection of real-life New York dioramas. Have a seat, relax, and let the city tell its stories and entertain you.

Benchwarming by Barry Udoff

Don't just do something, sit there. -- Zen Proverb

Sun Valley by Nick Noyes

...And pretty much all Wikipedia has to say about this "census-designated place" is that it has 19,299 residents. Nick Noyes knows more than that about Sun Valley.

If We Could Talk to the Aliens by J.J. Green

J.J. Green is a British freelance science writer currently living in Taipei, Taiwan, where she writes on the natural environment and imaginary worlds.

Rock and Roll by Harvey Silverman

Harvey Silverman is a retired physician living in Manchester, NH. He writes primarily for his own enjoyment.

Riding in Cars with Cherries by Alexandra Queen

Things to do with summertime fruits, responsible and not-so.

Off the Truck by Dan H. Woods

But what if it was a big load of Elvis blankets? Or designer shoes?

A Guys' Guide to Perfume Shopping by Dan H. Woods

A Mother's Day gift for your sweetie? Here's some timely advice...

Living the Vida Digita by Anna Murray

Anna Murray is a nationally recognized technology consultant, speaker and blogger. One of an extraordinarily rare species -- a woman who owns a successful software-development company -- she loves to combine her two passions, technology and writing.

Russian Windows by Dianne Post

Dianne Post is an attorney who worked for twenty years representing battered women and children in family courts. Since 1998 she has been doing international human rights work focused primarily on gender-based violence. Her writings include articles, columns, law review articles, and short stories for which she has won several prizes.

The Technicolor Taxi From Tenochtitlán by Michael Ward

Hang on to your luggage, you're in for the ride of your life ...

Hands On by Rebecca Morean

Rebecca Morean is a mother of four, raises a small heard of goats and makes cheese, teaches writing and composition at Sinclair Community College, and wants to right wrongs by writing about wrongs. She has published over two dozen short stories, and her articles and fiction have appeared in <i>Salon, Crone, Kalliope</i>, and <i>Mississippi Mud</i> among others. Her novel, <i>In the Dead of Winter</i> (St. Martin's Press) was picked up as a series by Breese Books in England and is about the daughter of Sherlock Holmes. She is currently the president of the Antioch Writers' Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

I'm Allergic To My Mother by Nathaniel Tower

A tragic affliction, and wouldn't you know it, it's not even seasonal ...

In Recognition of We Smaller Men by KK Brown

We can blame the wrecked Mercedes on the man in his underwear ...

Saigon 3: War! by Phillip Donnelly

Phillip Donnelly continues his examination of Ho Chi Minh City, looking both at the past and the future of the place remembered as "Saigon..."

The Knights of New Jersey by Tim Henderson

Tim Henderson describes what it is like to be transported to medieval times by Medieval Times.

An Interesting Emotion by Tyler Willson

Grief is an emotion we dread, yet need to embrace ...

Writing by Mel Trent

Mel Trent offers the sound of her heart's passion -- the telling of stories.

Tales Untold by Lydia Manx

Lydia Manx shares with us some of what happens to her when she finds an idea or a prompt for writing.

Why I Write by Dan Mulhollen

Daydreaming happens. Sometimes we think it's a waste of time, but at others ... specifically at times when the blank page beckons, daydreams are shown to have sparkling facets like precious gems.