Elena Malec

One always comes first as in one hundred, one thousand, one million, one billion. One is followed by two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine – all figures. Yet there is also a

Those seated on the floor of this cavern, cross-legged like Indians, watching a blockbuster video on the wall, can only see the imitation of the perfect Idea of Liberty, the shadow of the Statue

The first map of my homeland I remember was a blank bulletin board on which they pinned down loyalty, patriotic fervor, sacrifice, and nothing else. They said that would suffice. My grandmother

In the beginning was the magic, and the magic was in the words, and the words were with the gods because gods were everywhere – on earth, underground, in the water, and in the air. (With one

To be or not to be – A book – at Oxford University. A rare book at Oxford In a thick tank - unheard of, Prior to space shipping or X-ray… If I only may say There is no question about it. No

Hurly-burly ever sirly, Peer of Gout and Lady Spleen, Lords are out, folks are in. Sorry for the strapontin! If you boo we make you pay cash per sitting and Earl Grey, mints’N

I tell my brain to behave. “You abuse me”, replies. Nope, I say I read all labels before eating canned foods, regularly I talk with my priest, money advisor, marriage counselor and

Highway patrols in Nevada, Oregon and California are alert tonight tracking down a couple of Monsanto genetically modified bacteria which is believed to have eloped into the wild; first to get

Two rose petals were stuck on my left hand biting voraciously into metacarpus; and I could not stop them , and I knew they wouldn’t go away; when the alarm clock came to the rescue, I woke

Starting this fall, introducing more fair general rules: young women who fail contests for Miss Universe beauty queen will have to haunt the country ballooning at the turn of the century

The man said: “Open your eyes and you shall see.” Just so we did, And there was the light. The man said: “Walk and you’ll feel free.” Just so we did, And traveled day and night By land and

Eden is often, if not always, associated with happiness. Adam is the first man (or the last) who experiences happiness, living in harmony with his environment, and enjoying in his human solitude this

I hold the word “elegant” between my fingers trying to match it with a familiar thing. While dipping a spoonful of cornflakes in skim milk, I think: milk would be fine; yet between its whiteness

From the East End to the other end of the rope – thank God I can hang on my hope, and smile; history is a serpentine aisle; gardens-cum-parks a la Kent, not to be but to bend … from

Menos solicitó veloz saeta destinada señal, que mordió aguda; agonal carro por la arena muda no coronó con más silencio meta, que presurosa corre, que secreta, a su fin nuestra edad. A

On dit que la faim c ‘est le meilleur cuisinier - ça sonne bien sauvage ; une bouche farouche … Mais qu\'est-ce que le carnage? c\'est quand on cuit un potage des otages. Donc, à quoi bon le

Art masters never saw Madonna and the Child they were commissioned to depict, and from Tuscany to Lower Saxony her image glows serene or solemn, patrician, robust, gilded – like a

They took a pile a literary trash and told us: “Listen folks, from now on you shall worship this; it represents a creed in the respect for all that is refuse. It’s our new religion,

Yes, it’s a fact. Scientists did isolate a gene that causes meanness, in a lab test on a horse embryo. No more bronco busting; mean, tough and rough – horseshit. It can be fixed,

Rich old ladies in America like to fold and unfold a big smile they learned from musicals with Ginger Rogers when they were young and fresh. Now their imitation smile, challenged by repeated