A poem written as an exercise of black-out poetry, from a page of The Fall of the House of Usher. Some of the word tenses have been...

Washing The Dishes To Wash The Dishes

My girlfriend and I were going to move. We had our minds made up. Our building had too many bugs in the walls, too much dust in the air,...

A small galaxy floats in a quiet patch of space on the edge of the universe. It is, as galaxies go, completely unremarkable, with no...

I had been writing something more critically engaged to post this week, but like all of us, I'm a little wiped out. Weeks in the struggle...

Last Saturday afternoon, my brother, my dad, and I embarked on a movie marathon of three 1950’s era sci-fi films. They were This Island...

In the disorienting barrage of tragedy that 2020 has been so far, it can be easy to forget even some of the most important of occasional...

I almost told you that I didn’t want to climb the mountain this year. I almost told you that after three years of searching, the...

Avocado I'm sitting in a diner in early fall 2017. The gas station next door saw its roof collapse. The air conditioning at my parents'...

Certain modes of thought dominate the West that many remain unaware of or simply accept as self-evident and a priori. These functions of...

I've often wondered lately why we grow insensitive to hardships in the course of time. When I think how I felt for weeks a year ago, it...

Alone is a reality show which first aired on the History channel in 2015. The premise of the show is simple: 10 competitors are left in...

We climb the mountain, as we do every summer. You carry the pack because you are older and stronger. I scout ahead, floating along the...

In 2001 Dreamworks released the animated movie Shrek. In the movie, our title character, Shrek, and his loveable sidekick, Donkey, go up...

A short about finding authenticity Performed by Hanny Zuniga with music by Wesley Snedeker

Full disclosure: I am a lifelong Trekkie. I grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager with my parents, and...

Hurricane season is coming. People bring it up with worried voices. News anchors lament it with polished concern. And, yes, some of us...

Georgey parked his rusted out pea green 71 Ford Pinto on North Street and 2nd. He decided to walk the rest of the way to Rex’s apartment....

Martin Strøksnes' 2015 memoir Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean is as much about...

A Meadowsweet Story Don't forget to check out Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV of "Something Wicked" The creature followed Thomas,...