Remakes and reboots have seen an increase in production. With foreign markets opening up, there are places that have never seen many great movies from the past four decades. China is an untapped source and studios do whatever they can to get a piece. The method of coercion usually includes casting native actors, product placement, […]
Words From The Other Side
The Responsibility of White Women in Fiction Writing
Being woke is hard. It’s sucks and you’ll hate it. You’re 12-year-old Jonas holding your new knowledge like a starved baby trying to see the snowy hill and the sled in the Elsewhere. You’ll catch yourself saying words that hold more weight than they did the last time you said them. You’ll stop yourself mid-sentence […]
We Can’t Impeach Now: Throwing a Missile into the Impeachment Gearworks
Since essentially January 21st 2017, there have been calls for Trump’s impeachment. As he has now engaged in direct military action in Syria, he joins a long line of presidents engaging us in war for dubious purposes. As much as we’d like to fantasize that the sick irony of considering refugee children a threat before […]
Two Years In an Instant
It started a few days before my twenty-fifth birthday. My parents and I were enjoying a meal and some time together at a local Italian restaurant near their snowbird residence. I must have said something to trigger a thought in my mother because the conversation took a sharp, depressing turn. Realistically the story started years […]
Justin
Four years ago, I was perusing Facebook, and a suggested post an acquaintance had commented on popped up in my feed. It was a black and white picture of an extremely handsome man, with dark black hair, Disney prince looks, and soulful eyes. I clicked on the page and it was for a Canadian politician […]
Lights On a String
I ate when I wasn’t hungry yesterday. Twice. This is a thing I do when I’m feeling disconnected. I can even remember doing this as a child. Mom used to joke about how I was the little mouse in the house who would sneak away slices of American cheese from the fridge. I would scurry […]
