Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here—The American Prison System
Imitating Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s famous work on the gulag prison system in Soviet Russia, The First Circle, Jens Soering portrays himself…
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(Alien) Baby Got Back
The rain was falling down, down hard against the ground. The roads were flooded. Darkness spread, and even the motel…
I prefer funerals.
I worked for years as a church custodian, and I always liked working funerals better than weddings. For one thing,…
The NSA: ‘The Abyss from Which There Is No Return’
We now find ourselves operating in a strange paradigm where the government not only views the citizenry as suspects but…
What’s Wrong With President Coin? The Hunger Games, Rousseau, and the Future of Compassion
The Hunger Games trilogy has evolved from the little book that could (the initial, modest success of the first novel…
Woman II and Impressionist with Synesthesia
Light clinging to my teeth, the pulleys in my cheeks playing tug of war relentlessly, wondering if the noise of…
Drifting Apart
Sun’s unfiltered poisonous rays. Crusts of Algae scum. Slow amoebic waves. Bubbling magma of words. Pushing and scraping underneath. Movements…
The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
Once upon a time in America, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after…
Magazine and Other Poems
Magazine You open up at me Quotation marks drool and There are so many breasts. The Land of Oz is…
The American Surveillance State is Here. Can It Be Evaded?
“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is…