Discretionary Love

because, love is what makes us.

Author: John RC Potter

John RC Potter is an international educator from Canada, living in Istanbul. He has experienced a revolution (Indonesia), air strikes (Israel), earthquakes (Turkey), boredom (UAE), and blinding snow blizzards (Canada), the last being the subject of his story, “Snowbound in the House of God” (Memoirist). His poems, stories, essays, and reviews have been published in a range of magazines and journals, most recently in Blank Spaces, (“In Search of Alice Munro”), Literary Yard (“She Got What She Deserved”), Freedom Fiction (“The Mystery of the Dead-as-a-Doornail Author”), The Serulian (“The Memory Box”), The Montreal Review (“Letter from Istanbul”) & Erato Magazine (“A Day in May 1965”). His story, “Ruth’s World” (Fiction on the Web) was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. The author’s gay-themed children’s picture book, The First Adventures of Walli and Magoo, is scheduled for publication.

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May 3, 2024 by John RC Potter

Red Sky At Morning

There was a red sky at morning. It should have been a warning… To say I miss you says almost nothing at all, for my

February 29, 2024 by John RC Potter

Prisoners of the Window-Blind

Yes, my first clue, I now know, should have been your love of beautiful but dead flowers; the sickening yet sweet smell still lingers though