We were all disappointed in Showtime’s ending for the Dexter series, starring Michael C. Hall. Years ago, John King (The Drunken Odyssey Podcast) held a fan fiction night in downtown Orlando. This is the piece I read that night. And given the latest announcement of the Dexter reboot (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA-oCTUrNfE ), we’d like to share The […]
Inconvenience Yourself to Save Lives
I will be 39 in April. I’m a mother of a toddler, I’m a wife, an educator, writer, visual artist. I vote. I’m passionate about civil rights and the welfare of others. Though, honestly, I never feel like I’m doing any good in this world, that many times I feel like a cog in a […]
This Holiday Season
As a visual artist and a writer it weighs heavily on my mind every holiday season what my Ghost Parachute covers should say or do or evoke or show. Because I can’t forget what’s happening. This holiday season, while you eat your turkeys, your hams, your roasts, nibble on chocolate chips, sugar cookies, gingerbread, sip […]
Motherhood and Writing Life
The first two weeks of motherhood I said aloud, “I don’t want to be a mother anymore,” on a daily basis. With a chronic illness zapping my already sleep deprived body, I longed to write and make art. Almost two years into motherhood, I sacrifice my writing and visual art on a regular basis. It’s […]
Dinosaur World
Neither Rebecca or Drew could be certain the exact moment in which they decided the cute local newspaper boy had to go. Seething resentment just kind of crept up over time, until eventually, they started fantasizing about his ten-year-old skull crushed by a random piano falling out of the sky, a Mac truck swerving just […]