Nonfiction

A DISSOLUÇÃO DO REGIMEN CAPITALISTA Por Teixeira Bastos (1897) I Ninguem hoje contesta que o homem tem direito á vida. A legislação punindo o abôrto, reconhece-lhe esse direito ainda antes mesmo de nascer. O direito á vida...

Two Days in Bangkok Two days before my flight to Thailand, the phone rang. “Terry…” my father’s voice wavered. In our family, phone calls were always unidirectional, from child to parent. “Your mother’s not talking,” he said....

Short Circuit Robert Burns The light extinguished, yet the kinetic shock surged to my feet. The amplitude waxed, like whipped rope, each stronger than the last. I rubbed my feet against the sheet, back and forth,...

A VIRTUAL PLAYGROUND: PLANET EARTHBy Sarah Odishoo It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.                                                                                                                 —Arthur C. Clarke In a time of universal deceit, the truth is revolutionary.                                                                             —George...

THE LOSS OF HERBy Kimberly McElreath That Wednesday started with a pink pig pancake pajama party.  In Kindergarten, getting a new weekly letter means a lot.  It’s another step toward being a member in the...

FIGHTINGBy Connor Fitzpatrick  I have been in one real fist fight in my life.  I was in eighth grade at a classmate’s overnight birthday party.  We were all downstairs talking about girls and how we...

SPACE AND OTHER TRAVEL DESTINATIONS: PACKING FORZERO Gby Michael Fumai  How many times did I look up at night when I was a kid and contemplate what it must be like to float among the...

The Blue Room I lie in the spare bedroom of our little house. First house. I am wrapped in a twin-sized comforter from one of our college dorm rooms, even though the room is too...

MEDIEVAL SURGERY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE THIRD MILLENNIUMBy Dr. Raymond Fenech Who isn’t overawed by the progress that medicine has made in this third millennium? Yet few people know that basically all that we...

The Sliver of a Lie Once in a blue moon, we may meet someone who appears to have life figured out, someone who knows intrinsically the right things to do and say in any given...