I had the strangest dream last night. I was running through a Beauty and the Beast-esque castle while being chased by a cartoon policeman. A life-long lucid dreamer, I immediately knew this was a dream, not because the law was on my heels in a Disney-inspired castle, but because I was too tall—a miraculous six feet—and also deaf. I was carrying a small grey backpack with a frozen baby inside it. Despite being rock solid in its frozen cage, the baby was somehow alive. My mission was to tak...| Defenestration
The Mesozoic Era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, was followed by a brief, embarrassing phase in which one species somehow became dominant: homo sapiens, or “humans.” Humans were mammals who lived on land and watched YouTube. We first learned about humans when Dr. Martin Hardshell, a forensic crustalogist, was digging in Ancient Philadelphia with his own two claws. Our understanding of world history was fundamentally altered by his discovery of the Fishtown Ukulele and the Manayunk Toupee.| Defenestration
Crossing through the thicket of honeysuckle and valerian that line the path, my daughter and I step over decaying trunks and rusting time. The air is thick with jewelweed and […]| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
i got a co-star notification that said, "destroy with purpose." the app is a novelty at best. the notifications come to me like a sims 1 prank call. the "message from the universe" timing can be silly or ominous.| my varnished soapbox
Sometimes, on the verge of a depressive episode, I go online and look at the Arby’s menu as a way to ground myself. It’s a unique methodology of acknowledging the past, the 5 for $5 deal exemplifying just how distant my childhood has become, while also challenging myself to relinquish control by embracing the inherent uncertainty that tomorrow guarantees: Arby’s has introduced Steak Nuggets.| Defenestration
By Trais Pearson “Have you seen shapes yet?” She flinched, and willed the slumber from her eyes with slow, deliberate...| LIBRE
Leila's front wheel wobbles when she cycles over a crack in the tarmac. A car behind blares its horn as she struggles to steady the books in her basket and keep her summer dress from flaring up. 'You daft old cow,' the driver yells as he overtakes. He waves a flabby arm at her, blurry tattoos str| Defenestration
Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian RevolutionBänoo Zan and Cy Strom, EditorsGuernica Editions, 2025 Reviewed by Jeannine M. Pitas On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa “Jina” Amini, a Kurdish minority in Iran, was beaten to death by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, allegedly for improperly wearing the hijab. This incident led to an eruption […]| PRISM international
Well, here we are. Once again closing out a year. I don't have much that's very flowery to say. While it's not necessarily a tradition I enjoy, the end of the year brings with it a sort of melancholic existential dread that poisons my enthusiasm to ring in the new year. It's been a pretty tiring year, for unexpected reasons. And some very expected, due to the whole, Life Experience that the world continues to bring with it every subsequent year. It's exponential. This was my 40th full year on...| Dispatch from the Radical Dreamland
this post was originally written for the final couple days of cohost, a long-form social media site that as of october 1st will be sunsetting.| Dispatch from the Radical Dreamland
“The Endstate of History,” flash fiction by Bernie Jean Schiebeling| Electric Literature
Dear Kevin in 3C: Congratulations on the five-day bender. Incredible. How did all those people fit in your apartment? My wife and I thought nothing would ever top your last Labor Day marathon. You’re an inspiration, Kevin. We used to get wild. The baby made us forget. But you’re our reminder, Kev| Defenestration
“At the time of the episode,” Dr. Levin said at the conference, “Subject C didn’t recall it was her birthday. When prompted, she said, ‘I feel like an invalid.’” It was, he noted, a revealing momen…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Photographer unidentified, Three Archers, Japan, 1860-ca. 1900 Training the mind and body to become one The post Eugen Herrigel: Zen in the Art of Archery appeared first on The Culturium.| The Culturium
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Charles Darwin & Down House| The Culturium
Whenever the honeysuckle starts to bloom, I’m reminded of the spring when everyone decided it was a great idea for me to ride the back seat of a tandem bicycle with my father-in-law. He wasn’t even my father-in-law yet, which made this imposed, volun-told decree even more profoundly horrible.| Defenestration
Part 17 The wreckage finally thinned. I held my breath until the last shard slipped past—then let it out in a ragged rush. But the console was blinking amber. CARGO INTEGRITY. My heart lurched. I s…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
The lovely thing about a personal blog almost nobody ever reads is that you can use it almost like a diary. So I can use this post for personal encouragement and as a reference point throughout this year to check on my own objectives.| Techdecline's Blog
Thursday, June 12, 2025: I’ve started a new blog about our year living abroad in Costa Rica. If you’d like to follow me there, check it out here: a pura vida year in costa rica Some of my first posts […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Saturday, May 31, 2025: Welcome to our May cocktail hour. May was another busy month for us as we wrapped up our U.S. business and flew out to Costa Rica. Let’s have some margaritas, in some new margarita glasses I […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Listed below are the Winners of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Winners appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Listed below are the Finalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Finalists appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition. These exceptional works of prose were selected from over 800 submissions. Congratulations to... The post 2025 ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose Competition Semifinalists appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
Sunday, March 2, 2025: We were sad today to leave our apartment in San Miguel de Allende. We left and drove directly to Querétaro, our last stop for 3 nights before returning to the U.S. We were lu…| ~ wander.essence ~
Arrival in San Miguel de Allende Tuesday, February 25, 2025: We arrived at our two-story apartment at Calvario 8 in San Miguel de Allende on Tuesday late afternoon and promptly went out to a market to pick up some breakfast […]| ~ wander.essence ~
Writers & Artists Spirituality Series: Jane Austen, Chawton, Hampshire| The Culturium
April 22, 2022 - In the 60th anniversary year of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day, and the first anniversary of The Ecological Disciple, we look at a piece of writing that can help us take on even our current environmental crises. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
Dietmar Busse: Fairytales 1991-1999 at Amant| LONESOME PRESS
Across three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers. I feel like writing an homage to the three that were the most memorable. --- Name obfuscation methodology I will be using the real name of the individuals mentioned, but I …| R.L. Dane
Sayantika Mandal's essay "Mother Tongue" can be read here. Check it out and check out her interview!| december magazine
A Grief Fulfilled| rldane.space
By HandYou stood at some imaginedprecipice complaining aboutthe circuitry of your skinthe way the cells weresoldered by a boy whosefather never taught him how. You remembered coweringin| Portland Review
WARWICK, R.I. — A story by Tony Pacitti, inspired by a walk through Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park.| Scrawl Place
A soul walks, dreams in its lonesome. What is housed in this museum of melancholic romance?1 A musician fighting with the void.2 A sculptor caressing the form within. A philosopher who perceives mysterious powers that cannot be explained.3 A poet producing sounds in a private theater of mourning. Alchemists. Voyagers. Healers. Those who respond to…| LONESOME PRESS
Jack Kerouac's "Alone on a Mountaintop" beautifully explores the art of being on one's own atop Desolation Peak, Washington State.| The Culturium
February 22, 2024 - A Sand County Alamanac, published 75 years ago, still has much to teach us about the land and our place upon it. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
January 25, 2024 - First up in a short series, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard, is a work that has significantly shaped how I, and many others, see the natural world and our relationship to it. By Louise Conner| The Ecological Disciple
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
A literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.| www.fairytalereview.com
