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Not Today, Satan

By | 2019-12-11T18:54:38-08:00 December 12th, 2019|Categories: Issue 100: 12 Dec 2019|Tags: , |

By David Martinez   I was suspected of heresy the first day of the class I’d picked up at the Christian university, which I suppose is valid. This was after I introduced the course, the topics, and how we would focus on critical thinking as a way to progress and achieve in college, and explained we [...]

I Still Am

By | 2017-05-10T15:00:17-07:00 May 11th, 2017|Categories: Issue 24: 11 May 2017|Tags: , |

By David Martinez   I’m reading Open Veins of Latin America—because I’m writing my South-American book—when the woman in the parking lot starts to scream. The man’s screaming, too, and it’s violent screaming and I can’t see them. But I know they’re both red-faced and she’s crying. She’s shrieking. They’ve both been shrieking for a lifetime, but I couldn’t [...]