Clever: The Ezine for the Neglected Demographic

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Armchair Travel:
Old Hawaii: The Phantom's Virtual Postcard Tour continues...
Where my friends went on their vacations ...
Wild Animals Galore: touring the wild animal parks in Namibia, by June Rendle

The Funny Stuff:
Top Ten Signs your cat is...by Lydia Suarez
Eat Your Pineapple: Fresh Pineapple Has Many Benefits
New Truisms: something for the "how true, how true" file
How to irritate annoying Strangers who are trying to sell us stuff
One cat joke

The New stuff (since our last announcement):
A Pinch of Spice, by Patricia Crandall
Guilty Pleasures, by Joe Greco
The Ant Hospital, by Zaphra Reskakis

This Issue's Featured Writing:
An Idaho Morning, by Jonell Hoffman
The Dominant Species, by Peter Simons
Morris, by Tricia Sutton
The Ant Graveyard, by Kristina Yapp
What D’ya Want From Me? by Dee Walmsley, Clever's nature writer

Short Fiction:
First Date, by Martin Green
Rear Vision, by Michael C. Keith
The Box, by Pamela June Kimmell
Cook-off, by Peter Simmons

Miscellaneous:
In Bed with the Phantom -- summer reading
Movie Reviews: a few rentals for summer!
Our Recipe Files are back! with some new additions
Our Reader Responses -- updated

Serial Fiction If you haven't read Snowbound yet, it's time. Great summer reading!
Snowbound: Day 59: the final chapter! Will Sidney and Matt finally get rescued?
Snowbound: Day 1, Here's where the story begins

Blogs and websites we like:
Clueless secretary and the Lost Cat
The Moon Bear blog: Jill needs your help!
Mini Speaks, even my cat is blogging these days
Wanna read everything DianneK has written?

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

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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: book awards, lists
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?

Our next theme is...
"Flash and other fiction", send us your most interesting lies,
suspend our disbelief and make us weep with joy.

New policy: we are going to try "continuous publication".
This means that when you send us something,
if we like it we will publish it into the current issue.
Every few months we'll refresh our home page.