Grandpa said the world didn't end one day. The old ways of doing things just receded, a wave falling back into the ocean. Lucy understood what he meant though she'd never seen the ocean and expected she never would. Even now there were places where people drove cars and flew in planes and kept electric lights on all the time, but nobody could afford that in Vermont.

In the predawn hours, the driver

goes out in the cold or the sticky dew

to look under the hood, inspect the engine,

the axles, the windshield, the tailpipe.

THE LIFE AND FASCINATING ADVENTURES OF MISS ELIZA “ELI” GENTLE WHO TRAVELLED EUROPE AND ASIA DRESSED AS A MAN! ALONG WITH HER ENCOUNTERS WITH DANGEROUS WEATHER EXOTIC BEASTS AND THE LAW AS WELL AS HER UNMASKING OF A  MYSTERY POET TAKEN FROM HER JOURNALS AFTER SHE RECENTLY DIED OF FEVER

“I could clear out death row in an hour with this much pentobarbital. And I guarantee I’d be better at it than most executioners. I don’t even believe in capital punishment but every time I hear on NPR that there’s been another botched execution I think ‘they should really just hire me.’”

“I bet.”

Among his portfolio of portraits of kings, queens, and popes, this iconic Sir Thomas Lawrence painting depicts an unlikely pair of women.

Thames Water is about to go bankrupt and it would be a robbery to let the Government sell off our water to the highest bidder once again.

Debt is inherent to the human experience. We exist within social structure, within societies, and at their most basic levels these relationships are based upon common aid and community.

Multimedia zine on the state of violence in politics

I just turned 25! It was a Sunday birthday, one with a lot of quiet moments and time for reflection and from that clarity I’ve decided there’s something I need to confess. December 2021, the 22nd specifically, we hung out without you. I don’t think it makes me evil necessarily but you can’t have secrets between friends and I think you should know.

The boasting doesn’t come from pride. It comes from a rotting shame that grasps at any tool of the ego to assuage guilt. Professing, often only to themselves, the righteousness of their act of killing in an attempt to claw back the very humanity that they stole from someone else.

The facade above the automatic doors gives absolutely no warning that this is one of those malls where one entrance sends you straight into a store, forcing you to bear the awkwardness of being inside a store with no intention to buy anything.

Dumbass arts outreach volunteer guy doesn’t realize she’s concussed doesn’t realize she can’t read right now can’t write right now and even if she could it sure as hell wouldn’t make her heal.

Supposedly, it’s 2:00 AM. Alex glares sideways at every clock he sees, letting his head spin in that direction until it loops back into him. Having spent years doing everything he could possibly do in his apartment, he centers himself to the task of pushing his window open.

Arms folded over the balcony’s creaky railing, Zoe looks down at the dancers. As they stumble in time with a skip in the CD, Zoe observes the lines of their movement with unwarranted awe. As impossible as it seems, she hopes that one day she’ll be just as beautiful.