The Tin Drum
(Directed by Volker Schlondorff)
by Kevin Murphy
Amtrak estimated nine hours travel time from Charleston to Ft. Lauderdale. Scheduled to board at six, I cracked the dawn with depot coffee and […]
Welcome Home
by J.A. Tyler
Begins: Writing equals love & passion. Middling: Writing tends towards disruption & discord. Story ends: Writing equals torture. In between: famine abuse violence death & the like. I […]
The Shortest Day of the Year
by Wendy Mnookin
Our doors blocked by a blizzard
the two of us climbed from a window
into a world made new-
mailboxes buried, signs disappeared.
We walked on the tops of bushes,
dug until we […]
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
(Directed by Sidney Lumet)
by Kevin Murphy
If the ways of the world have turned you sour, take heart you’re not a member of the Tyrone family. Based largely on his […]
James Hunter
This image is of a Spanish silver 2-Reale coin, minted in 1708. It was found in the mast step (the place where the ship’s mainmast was inserted–or “stepped”–into the keelson […]
