When I first read McCarthy, especially Blood Meridian, I interpreted the grotesque violence as sort of being like a Dark Bible or a Third Testament.

You know in Dead Poet's Society how they just rip out the introductory chapter? That's you with Cormac McCarthy.

by Karl Anderhall, DDS new White House ballroom which will store enormous Trump poo-poo undies 11. Storage for Trump's enormous poo-poo undies 10. Where Trump and Dr. Phil get coffee and "vision board the next six millennium" 9. Storage for unsold Trump water 8. People visiting the White House can go in there 7. Eric Trump uses chairs to dry his jockstraps 6. Use as megachurch by next R president 5. Where Dr. Oz trims his pubes 4. Testing site for new Trump super vacuum 3. Fa

Welcome to Thoughts 5/1/26 I was driving home today from planting some flowers at Bella's house. I fell into a deep realization and comprehension that all life is a physical continuation and expansion of what life was before. That our lives leave behind physical evidence or proof of existence. When we can see better in the future, when our souls can see more reality, we will be able to see residue from the lives we have lived, like marks on a page or oil paint on a canvas.

Here I give an enthusiastic and marvelous review of new novels and other literature

In my thirties I was in a book club with a lot of lawyer friends and we started meeting for breakfast at the Market Street Grill (the one downtown right above The New Yorker).

For years, I've heard people at work, people at home, people at the coffee shop, talk about WORDLE, but I never have tried it myself.

My name is Scott Smith. And I am an identical twin. I am fifty-four years old. Thank you for inviting me to Identical Twins Anonymous aka ITA so that my twin and I can address the childhood trauma of being identical twins, something we had no control over or responsibility for: this opportunity to address the trauma now arriving more than thirty years after the fact.

Editor's Note: My ex- and I separated in 2009 and divorced in 2010. It took us a while to get into a good rhythm with visitation, so I...

{ Editor's Note: This short fiction appeared in print and online in Edition #12 of The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles , in 2017 } Ted...

I want to use the analogy of Christmas to look at how we tell other stories about our families, our children, about life and death

Last winter, a week before Christmas, they asked some parents to go down and clean the elementary school after the big shooting you ...

In September of 2016, the University of Utah celebrated the opening of a new law school education building

Fictional report explores what earth will look like to future life forms that discover earth

Fiction about two boys in junior high school and what they learn from playing in the orchestra

The Future of Baseball Is A Sad Game of Strike Outs, Walks, Homers, and Computer Simulation

Here are the Best 100 Books of All Time.

Demon Copperhead Novel Review, Chapter Forty-Two to End

And in this case I want to tell you about how that tradition held my family together one terrible summer for my sister which I see now clear

People say you have to be careful and you can’t be too trusting and by God if you get into anything fun or dangerous you better only...