Clever: The Ezine for the Neglected Demographic

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The Phantom's World Tour, via postcards, of course
The Arizona Bicycle Adventure: Sometimes You Do Get What You Ask For, by Phillip Ghee
The Guatemala Volcano Adventure: Hot Brew, by Phillip Ghee
Phnom Penh: Where Anything Goes, by Christina Hoag
The Canadian Rockies, a photo essay by Meeta Gajjar Parker and Francis X. Parker, Jr.
Experiencing The Big Island of Hawaii, by Meeta Gajjar Parker
Kansas: Land of the Cockeyed Optimists, by Edward M. Richstone
Travel Tips, by Heather Ross
Hazards of Travel, by Heather Ross

Essays and Short Fiction:
My Aviation Period, by George Allingham
The Killer Storm, flash fiction by Jim Harrington
Girl Power, by Tonilyn Hornung
Friday, flash fiction by Julia Pierce
It Only Happens in the Movies, by Randall W. Pretzer
Hero, by Randall W. Pretzer

With our animal friends in mind:
Window Bird Watching, by Patricia Crandall
Look Out Little Fishies, here I come, by Terri Coffman
Having fun in the summer: pick up a puppy! by the Phantom
Be kind to bears: some thoughts on bear attacks, by the Phantom
A Coon Hunt, by Dee Walmsley, something from the Pet Pages

Reader Responses:
Can you identify this lion statue?

The Funny Stuff:
A Note From Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: internet humor
Spring Humor ~ the funny stuff just keeps on coming...

Serial Fiction
Snowbound: Day 1, by DianneK ~ we're beginning a new fictional thriller, in serial form:
Day 2, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 16, Day 17, Day 20, Day 21, Day 30, Day 35, Day 41,
Day 58, (only one more chapter to go!)
Reprise: The Chasm, by DianneK (completed) ~ first published 10 years ago

Miscellaneous:
In Bed with the Phantom -- summer reading anyone?
Movie Reviews: summer renters

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

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...
Celebrating the holidays with good food
and fond memories. Send us your food related stories,
and your recipes. We'll be adding the best of the lot
to our recipe collection.
In addition we'll publish your short fiction, holiday travel stories,
or anything else that strikes our fancy.