On Reading ‘A Government of Wolves’
Close your eyes. Imagine you are George Winston. It is 1984. You are concerned about Big Brother watching you. The…
Category: Original Lit
Forgetting Him
Emperor Caligula declared war on Poseidon and ordered his soldiers to thrust their spears into random, threatening, foaming waves. I…
The Panda Complex
“When I first met Yaba, I was so nervous I threw up on a fern in her enclosure.” Norman Spitzer…
Guns Talk: A Parody of “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men
Hey! Hey! Hey! She was just walking down the street, and they come blasting, chased by the heat. The kid…
Grist
At 6:35 AM, on a Tuesday mid-July, Alberto Salazar woke up. It was not, however, a literal awakening, considering Salazar…
Kerouac Torch
Tom walked in with the bouquet of blazing sacrosanct truths the first sermons he could ever really get behind. he…
Lift-Off
Two flight attendants bobbed down the aisle with gyroscopic grace as our plane taxied off the Pearson runway toward a…
The Layman’s Holiday
Happy Fourth of July, Readers! I hope you’re all enjoying hot dogs and lemonade in bright blue backyard pools, or…
Riding in Mustangs
Rain spatters against my forehead so I yell at Chris to roll his window up. It’s so hot and humid…
Abandoning a Warlord for Dummies
One of the car bombs peeled the lawn, then the smog cleared up Anton stood palmin' a beer mug, molotov…