By Ryane Nicole Granados “Nobody would pass me the ball. Even kids who I thought were my friends wouldn’t pass me the ball.” These words from my nine-year-old, after another round of recess, Darwinism style, bounced around in my head like a bright orange basketball stealing my sleep at 2:00 a.m. and making me despise [...]
By Alice King You are afraid of it You are afraid of it because of what it could do to your heart Melt it? Thaw it? Maybe just a little but not enough to make waves crash And slam against rock Bones stone hard Refusing to be broken are broken I smell your gas It [...]
By IE Sommsin Tragic, that whore of a word, conjoining with demagogic scheme and crazy scam and the most shameful patriotic sham, to dress up the bleak disaster they bring. It’s wonderful how one word neatly pricks swollen outrage, obscuring rightful blame so there’s no cause to curse and name by name the breathtaking scum [...]
By Eric Lochridge We are making a list of people who could hurt us. Their names often are not easy to spell. Could Al Sharkey, auto mechanic in Michigan, be one of the al-Sharki clan of Yemen? With no easy way to know, our list will claim he is not one we can trust. House [...]
