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Sitting on a wood Victorian table in the foreground are a Greenish gritty pumice soap bar soaping up with suds, and a cheeseburger also engulfed by suds. In the background, a black and white photograph of four Victorian lady tennis players in white dresses and hats with black ties and holding tennis rackets in different positions.

“Soaping Up” * Fiction * Mike Lewis-Beck

aromatica poetica October 12, 2022

“Why aren’t you in class or on the courts?” asked a guest, rustling the calm of the sun-soaked corridor of Total Tennis (TT), a summer camp for teen women. “The campanile bell rang at 6:00 a.m.” “Yes, ma’am,” replied Marina, a 19-year-old counselor-in-training. “Monday through Saturday, before breakfast, we’re all supposed to take a workshop. Yesterday mine was Better Backhand. Today it’s Kinesiology.” The student could explain Kinesiology to this new lady but decided not to since she had a …

An interior photograph of Café Metafoor with signs for beers in French and English and Dutch and lots and lots of taps.

“Café Metafoor” * Fiction * Mike Lewis-Beck

aromatica poetica May 13, 2021

I sat on a bar stool at the best beer pub in Leuven, not to say the best in all of Flanders, which means the best in Belgium, maybe the world. Of all the brews on offer at Café Metafoor, I chose the Affligem Dubbel, a dark malty ale, just sweet enough and strong enough, but not too strong. Like all true Belgian alehouses, no food was served, except for peanuts or chips, for the salt. I went for the …