Be a Child, My Son by Andrew Collins “When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and […]
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Life Abundant: The Kiwi Edition by Andrew Collins Hunt for the Wilderpeople is one of those delightfully unnecessary films. The world neither needs nor deserves a film like this indie comedy from writer and director Taika Waititi, but we are undoubtedly better off for its having been made. The film is set in the beautiful, […]
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Crazy As They May Seem by Andrew Collins The young auteur, Damien Chazelle, announced his talent to the world with a crash and a bang—literally—in the festival circuit with 2014’s Whiplash, a dark tale of a relentlessly ambitions jazz drummer and his abusive instructor at New York’s prestigious Shaffer Conservatory. The film wrung the best […]
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Black ice by Rachel Joy Watson For two years, there was black ice everywhere; on my apartment steps, on the road to work and on the pathway we walked from my car to church. Sometimes we’d risk our lives just to drive down the road for a bag of hot tacos. On the way we’d […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is a chapter from an unreleased novel by Jack H. Simons. It follows the exploits of David Skevo, a man of remarkable skills and talents, whose career as an “invisible man” started with a mission gone sideways in the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Recovery by Jack H. Simons […]
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The Best Tea for . . . Avoiding Caffeine by Heather M. Surls Let’s get this straight: I don’t prefer decaffeinated tea. My mind will always side with an older friend who spent much of his life in a former British colony. “I want REAL tea,” he once said, when presented with an array of […]
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