The spooky season is upon us, and so I thought I would treat you (or trick you) to a short story I wrote several years ago. Happy Halloween. *...

VN alexander In Martin Amis’ The Zone of Interest (2014), set in a Nazi death camp, the Commander, Paul Doll, has his wife, Hannah, and two daughters living with him in...

Edward Curtin The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself”...

TE Creus Someone must have slandered Josef K, for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. His landlady, Frau Grubach, had a cook who brought...

Margaret Anna Alice Once upon a time in a prosperous land, a rumor swept across the kingdom that there was an invisible vapor floating through the air. Many vapors...

Raminder Mulla In the Hindu tradition, there are four stages to life. One of learning how to be a citizen, one of householding, where one works and contributes to...

TE Creus “Hi, dude!” “Oh. Hi. How are you?” “I’m good. How do you like my shoes?” “Nice. Are those…” “Yeah. The original Nike Lil Nas X Satan’s Shoes,...

TE Creus The vaccine was a resounding success. Yes, there had been a final death rate of 10% among the vaccinated, but this was mostly among the elderly or...

Catte Black One day in a land far away and a time long gone a Priest came to where the Many were tending their crops and livestock and said…...

Edward Curtin And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers There...