I’m trying to write an essay about why we can’t lose our sense of humor. I’m trying to write an essay about why we can’t lose our sense of humor, but all I can think about are the men being shipped off to a super-prison in a foreign country. All I can think about is...
So many coming-of-age novels are set during high school, when things are obviously turbulent (puberty, dating, getting into college, having to wake up at zero dark thirty and go sit in a building with hundreds of your fellow crazy hormonal teenagers, etc.), but I’ve...
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s story is immortalized in the Little House on the Prairie books, as well as a TV series that ran from 1974-1983. Over a series of nine books, published between 1932-1943, the Little House story shows the hardship of frontier living while also...
“Do you think I could?” Therese asked simply, before she could debate whether she dared to ask. “What!” Richard smiled. “Fall in love with a girl? Of course not!” – Patricia Highsmith The first time I was published in a literary magazine was because of a sort of...
Judith Lewis is a name that not many readers will recognize; but those who fell victim to the late 2000s-early 2010s dystopian/ fantasy young adult novel craze (think Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, later Harry Potter novels, The Selection, etc.) might recognize...
