Alexandra Stanislaw/Creative Nonfiction

Alexandra Stanislaw/Creative Nonfiction

Vladimir Chuchadeev *** Dreams of Decadent Grief   by Alexandra Stanislaw You imagine your suicide – the faux porcelain bathtub brimming with sudsy water, milky swirls kissing your breasts, the bulge of your middle over the top line of the water, the reddening...
Shelly R. Fredman/Creative Nonfiction

Shelly R. Fredman/Creative Nonfiction

Erda Estremera *** Town at the End of the World   by  Shelly R. Fredman The first time I walked the slip of sand that is Wellfleet Harbor, I huddled in the wind against my college professor. He had summered in the town for years, and for our first and only night...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

US Parks Service photo Drifted snow in Glacier Gorge *** How I Know I’m Not In Florida By Mark Levy I moved from south Florida to Evergreen, Colorado, about a year ago. The other night, a nightmare woke me up. I dreamt I was still in Florida, yet many things...

Galanty Re-Tweets

*** On fabricated autobiographies and other euphemisms   By Galanty Miller   I‘m organizing a fundraiser to pay for all this fancy cheese./ Our fingernails never stop growing — which, when you think about it, basically makes us monsters./ And yet...

Henry Giroux/Commentary

Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance     Ed. Note: Critical Thinking: From time to time the imperative to consider the stakes takes stage. This is one of those times. Our thanks to Henry Giroux for sharing with us an article that appears...