Written Tales

  • Alan Bern

    Alan Bern, retired librarian and photographer, co-runs _lines and faces_, a press devoted to poetry and printmaking.

September 14, 2023

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For the sake of the game: 1964 CE humorously recounts the author's junior high days, where he and his friends played croquet—sometimes for money—in a twist on the game’s genteel...

July 10, 2023

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Coughing hard, she draws away from the stove’s hiss, her voice tightening as old summers surface, the war-torn memory pressing forward before she can decide whether to speak.

September 25, 2022

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Alan Bern bends Dante’s frost into quiet resilience. Beneath winter’s hush, small movements persist—proof that faith, like trees, endures long after color fades.

July 22, 2022

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Alan Bern turns an accident into scripture. A slip, a fall, a crooked frame—each misalignment a small reminder that grace often arrives slightly off-center.