Wild Life in the City
No Roar . . . No Smell . . . All Awe! They're everywhere! A photo essay! <br /> Wild Beasts In Manhattan. An Urban Safari (Still Life) | by aleXander hirka |...
Women. Artists. Activists. Mothers. — April and May
Celebrating April and May . . . 15 April 2019A woman artist hangs out her political laundry. A very short story. <br /> Tenement Testament. Heliocentric...
Remember the Pandemic?
April 2020."There’s a horror movie playing outside on the big screen. They’ve locked the theater doors so we’re in here for the duration. Even the ticket...
Bring Your Own Popcorn (Reality, Virtual and Otherwise. Now Showing)
Oops. I missed my weekly newsletter deadline. But here it is — a few days late. Hope your clicks herein are rewarded with inspiration. Health report. The...
Going Back To Look At The Future
Healing in the present. Three pieces of speculative (science) fiction from the past. Through Alien Eyes. 8 May 2021 <br /> Just Look At Them. Aliens on Zoom...
War And Sex And War (Including A History With Songs)
Health Update Realizing that even though the "I" writing this wasn't present at the surgery (due to anesthesia) — this body I live in very much was. We are...
Read Me For A Swift Recovery [A Special Edition]
Tomorrow — 7 April 2022 — in lieu of thoughts, prayers, wishes, or flowers . . . Please READ one of my stories or essays on Medium. Most take only a few...
Thoughts, Prayers, and Supplications to Lady Luck (Please)
Under The Knife Next Thursday 7 April 2022 will be my second-ever surgery. (The other, a vasectomy, half a lifetime ago, barely counts — that was merely an...
Famous People, Superheroes, and Peace
For your consideration. . . If you enjoy my written pieces — as well as those of my life/art partner Tammy Remington — and the thousands of other writers on...
Even Writers Have To Sleep
Where famous writers lived in Manhattan —along with some of their words. A tour. <br /> Writers Slept Here. And Then Poured Words Onto The Page | by...
Listen . . . Read . . . Pay Attention
Lend Me Your Ears for some Amazing Music! Take them in. Implant them in your DNA.If indeed we go out in a flash of light, more fragments of this magic stuff...
It's boring.
"Niños. I've seen so many of them grow up. Other people look at the children and they all imagine a new world. But me, when I watch them, I just see the same...
Everything Is Numbered
Do you want your thoughts provoked with something besides the insanities of the current military madness?Consider this . . .There are things you can count on...
Never Discuss Politics Or Religion (Special Edition)
OK, I'll skip the religion. But here are some politics for a Sunday morning as the USofA is doing that little-boy-gotta-pee-gotta-go-to-war dance they did...
Eye Warning, CATastrophic Attention Spans, and Dali Dolly Redux
New Art. CAT-astrophic Attention Span (a story). <br /> The C-A-T with A-D-D. Life In The Deficit Column (A Moral… | by aleXander hirka | Medium Life In The...
Feel the "Like" & Like the Liars & Thieves
This Is Your Mind On Internets . . . Scroll Scroll Scroll . . . click! <br /> Merrily We Scroll Along. Show Me Your “Like”, And I’ll Show You… | by aleXander...
The Dark And Mysterious (Hot Dogs Included)
Every picture tells a story. Every sound a memory evokes. Wash it down with some observations. I am not the one to mop up the vascular juices that pulse...
The Cat and Cacophany and Dancing
The Shadow Of Your Meow <br /> Cat On A Dark Noir Floor. The Shadow Of Your Meow | by aleXander hirka | Medium The Shadow Of Your Meow </div> Cacophonous...
The Cat x 2 + An Environmental Biology Lesson
Two Tales of The Cat My Tale. <br /> Absence. A Heart Gone Yonder | by aleXander hirka | Jan, 2022 | Medium A Heart Gone Yonder </div> My life/art partner...
Hawk and Lobster
Resolutions scattered around my desk—like so many discarded skin flakes feeding the dust mites—as the new year gets off to a slow start.No new writings and...