The Black Boar Soren A. Gauger To resume our discussion: the nature of a man best reveals itself in a state of utmost romantic antipathy. Take, by way of illustration, the jilted lover. The one man kills his wife, the other commits suicide. The first man encloses himself in a room, plotting and contriving,…
The Dollhouse Thomas Walton There’s gunk in my ear. I picked it out, but I don’t know, these things happen. It’s just who I am. Every school has its student who smells like bacon. I’m the gunky-eared kid, I guess. I’m in a wheelchair too, but so what? It doesn’t matter here. Of…
Phantom Architecture Will Waller On Thursday, April 18th, 1906 at 5:12 AM, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 struck Northern California. Between the quake and the resulting fires, 3000 people died and 80% of San Francisco was destroyed. Among those landmarks destroyed was the Palace Hotel. Although a ‘New’ Palace Hotel would open its…
When We Lived in the Blue House JC Reilly 1. Our blue house is missing a wall. What faces the street is open, nothing to keep out intruders or weather. We stand in the middle of the room and watch a parade pass by on the street. A lion detours from the parade and comes…
Parable of the Dead Allie Gove My mother used to tell stories late at night, after my dad had finished reading the Bible to us. She fed us hopes of the afterlife as if it were six feet above us: neon stars glued to the popcorn ceiling, just barely out of reach. That maybe when…
