Clever: The Ezine for the Neglected Demographic

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Looking back:
Clever's Top 10 Films of the Decade, by the Phantom

This Quarter's Featured Writing:
Ode to Soup, by Carole R. Brier
Belizean Fare, by Terri Coffman
Always Read the Label, by Thomas Grantland
The Art of Alkimia: a Catalonian dining experience, by Stephen S. Hale
The Care and Feeding of Dishwashers, by Erica Stux

Short Fiction:
The Killer and the Angel, by Daniel Burke
The Untouchable Politician, by Martin Green
Going in Circles, by Dennis McDougle
Still Available, by Christopher Woods

Armchair Travel:
Flowers of Alaska, a photo essay by Meeta Gajjar Parker
Cancun – Fun in the Yucatan, by Meeta Gajjar Parker
What's on the back of the postcard, the Phantom's Virtual Postcard Tour continues
The "New" Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, by John Rosenberg

The Funny Stuff:
Food Facts, internet research
Winter collection of jokes ~ the funny stuff just keeps on coming...

Serial Fiction
Snowbound: Day 59: the final chapter! Will Sidney and Matt finally get rescued?
Snowbound: Day 1, Here's where the story begins

Miscellaneous:
In Bed with the Phantom -- the winter round up of good and not so good books
Movie Reviews: a couple new ones, still waiting for the winter good stuff to show up
Our Recipe Files are back! with some new additions

With our animal friends in mind:
Window Bird Watching, by Patricia Crandall
Be kind to bears: some thoughts on bear attacks, by the Phantom

Blogs we like:
Melody's Reading Corner
Meeta Gajjar
The Moon Bear blog: Jill needs your help!
Mini Speaks, even my cat is blogging these days

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Archives:
Art exhibits, artists and their work
Book Reports, book awards, book collecting...
Essays, the best of previous issues
Fiction, hopes, dreams, falsehoods & mysteries
Gardens are our passion
Investigations, lion statues and other extremely important research
Nature stories, saving the environment one small step at a time
Pet Pages, lots of heavy petting going on
Poetry, take your medicine, read a few, you
might like them
Travel Essays, armchair travel at its finest

Humor Archives, or look at the following:
Relationship, senior and southern humor
Pearly gates and regional humor
One-liners

The Phantom's Page: here's the editor's stuff
The Celebrity Page: whenever we feel like congratulating somebody for something special, you'll find it on this page. Check it out.

Ongoing collections:
Clever Cooks, here it is, our recipe collection
Movie Review Archive:
A-C, D-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z
The Clever Lists, we love lists
Clever Cooks - the recipes

Departments:
Our bookstore: bookclub reading list!
Publishing Guidelines, want to get your piece published? Read this first.
Contributors' Archive
the alpha list: A-C, D-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z
About Clever, maybe more than you want to know

Reader Responses, fire off an email and let us know what you think, we'll publish it here
A Message from the Editor: occasionally the editor spouts off about something
Want to Subscribe to Clever? We'll put you on our mailing list and you'll hear from us once in a while (no advertising, we promise!)
The Clever archive of past issue Cover Art.

Wanna check out the Phantom's Blog?

The theme for our next issue is...
"Olio": we're housecleaning,
and will be looking at stories we have on file.
It's time to publish or perish, as they say.
Whatever you've got that fits the theme, we'll look at it.