There isn’t much in life that you can’t grow accustomed to, Mary says to no one. With enough time, with enough exposure, even the experiences that once would have made you scream will instead be rendered mundane. You’ll grow accustomed to ice-cold baths, the kind that...
my sculpture (found art) gave me happiness made from a wheel.
When I was thirteen years old, Mom and Dad never stopped screaming, blaming me for their disaster marriage. It wasn’t my fault Dad had a gambling addiction. It wasn’t me who convinced Mom to day-trade our savings away. I had endless escape-fantasies. When Grandma...
“But that’s not fair!” I cried. June 22nd, 1994. A day that would live in infamy forever, for my 4th-grade teacher, Mr. Patterson, refused to give me the highly anticipated new blue raspberry-flavored Blow Pop he’d promised the class at the end of the day because I...
By Ryan Vergara Bones are the piece of human anatomy I find most fascinating. They are among the last elements to materialize, remaining unformed in the years of our infancy, yet they are the last remnants of human decay. From forensics to fossils, bones are the final...
By Amanda Wilde We're on the edge of the AegeanI'm under an umbrella made of palm frondshe's standing in the seaI'm watchinghe's skipping rocks. In the sun it's 30Cin the wind and water it's 30FI wonder who he isI know his laugh lines are 100maybe more. Captivated,...