A Raven’s Journey: The Life and Times of Sam Houston
Essay by the Librarian of Celaeno | Sam Houston is justly famous as the founder of Texas, first as a republic, and then, after nearly a decade of independence, as a state in the Union
read moreEssay by the Librarian of Celaeno | Sam Houston is justly famous as the founder of Texas, first as a republic, and then, after nearly a decade of independence, as a state in the Union
read moreFiction by Leo Vladimirsky | The Puppy Love clinic on Prospect Park West sat between a chain coffee shop and one of those nostalgia studios where people went to make apps the old-fashioned way. As Madison crossed the street, she noticed that the sign above the door was flickering with cubic artifacts, words flipping every few seconds
read moreFiction by Br0dysseus | His phone distilled the day’s events: crown moldings, placards for Maulbertsch, hazy steins of beer. The last picture showed him and Cullen. They were seated in a velour booth, faces jaundiced by a bromidic candelabra. Terry wore an azure turtleneck, Cullen—an oxford button-down
read moreFiction by Simon Rowat | “Delivery for Mr O’Brien.” “Yeah? I wasn’t expecting anything.” His eyes fall on the large cardboard box in my hands and his face contorts in confusion. I can’t stop myself from saying, rather ominously, “No — you weren’t, were you.”
read moreEssay by Raw Egg Nationalist | For ordinary folk, the savage violence they were prepared to unleash on one another was, in a very obvious sense, simply a reflection of the broader violence and hardship of daily life, especially on the frontier. Life in the backwoods usually meant poverty, certainly in monetary terms
read moreEssay by Raw Egg Nationalist | In a future agonal state, we might expect to see emerge men whose cruelty and thirst for vengeance and self-exaltation will outstrip any Miltiades of the past, and perhaps even the greatest despots of history so far. Their campaigns of annihilation will stretch across the planet, the solar system, and maybe even beyond
read moreEssay by Jenny Holland | The humble sacrifices of ordinary man have been written out of history, along with the male’s enormous tenderness towards his female counterparts
read moreFiction by Calvin Huckabee | Jerry stared unblinkingly at the overhead sun bulb in his little room. His white puffy body poured over the sides of the reclining chair, which doubled as his bed, like folded mayonnaise. His breathing was labored, though he hadn’t so much as stood in hours
read moreFiction by Stephen Pimentel | West of the Bosporus, the wilds began. Ancient tides whispered on the breeze across the land. A Persian outpost clung defiantly to the frontier, encircled by high stone walls, ramparts built of rough-hewn blocks and crowned with battlements, forming an imposing barrier against the wilderness
read moreEssay by A.J.R. Klopp | In the 1960s Duke Power had a problem. For years it had systematically discriminated against its black employees, refusing to promote them beyond manual labor
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