Listen to the audio version of this essay here Before I’d even slid the door shut, Enrique punched the throttle. His battered Dodge minivan lurched forward, and the passengers greeted [...]
Brief. Urgent. Intense. 750 words total, stripped of excess. Some have called flash fiction the “smokelong” -- stories that last the duration of smoking a cigarette. Others have paralleled the flash [...]
Had there been a peak? That one decisive watershed when the touch of a deus-ex-machina’s hand causes commotion in the wheel of history? Certainly not; those were the chimera of [...]
“That’s not what the evidence suggests,” she will say. Or, “It has not always been that way.” Or, “You’re making that same logical fallacy again.” She will say those things every day. [...]
Dearest, you are home. It lightens my heart to say this. You are home, you are home. Say it with me, let the syllables move over your tongue: home. It is a luxurious [...]
Zina woke without her alarm clock. She hadn’t set an alarm for years, now. The restfulness that came with a permanent job and human work hours offered a kind of [...]
Tak-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak. Each time a pickaxe meets the rocky land, a sharp sound resonates loudly before escaping into the night. From the middle of the valley, where they are standing, you [...]
“It is nothing short of a miracle to be in the presence of a farm animal who has managed to reach old age.” – Isa Leshko, Allowed to Grow Old [...]
Global Times May 1, 2100 Final Gas Well Dismantled Minister of Inter-Being Relations Calls Ground Reconciliation Ceremony “a Major Moment” In what marked the start of a new period in [...]
This should be Year Zero for universities in the United States. Cancel school for the upcoming year and pay staff, faculty, and administrators to reimagine our curricula for this decolonizing, [...]
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