Archive for the ‘Lit Up’
What Makes Us Human: A Critical Look at Jose Saramago’s ‘Blindness’
By Garry Richards Plague narratives have been around for thousands of years. Grecian myth speaks of plagues falling upon cities as a sort of punishment from the gods for some misdeed and the Bible contains a multitude of stories of how God punishes or threatens with plague. As recently as 2007, modern public figures have been [...]
‘Hell’: a Japanese Surrealist’s Vision
By Chance Henson “You have no need of a guide. After all, you have been there before. Leave all your cares and worries behind and follow me to Hell.” This is not the star-spangled American Hell to which religious extremists dream of sending the gays and secular humanists, nor is it a Cathalic’s vision of [...]
‘The Crucible’ and the Modern Witch Hunt
By Garry Richards Arthur Miller’s satirical play “The Crucible” was originally conceived to parallel the witch hunt craze of Salem Massachusetts with the Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1960s. While the surface of the play is about both the witch and communist hunts, the subtext seems to imply a broader assertion about human nature. [...]
Fire-less Island
Reaching out from behind the velvet black curtain of eternity, along the shore, a youth is touched. The angry waves of a milky tide caress the shore, reaching, reaching for the dry mountain land just out of its grasp. It is not meant to be. The lonely youth marches along the shore, taking [...]
Vanity Revisited
A moment briefly conquered In the mind is but a thread Which tends to wind about A fleshly spinning spool and Along a curving space from Withered hands to milky face, Like the acquiescence Of a sigh that in its time Would choose to lie within The womb of larger breaths, Until a catalyst [...]
One Hell of a Quirky Book: “No One Belongs Here More Than You”
By: Marcus Powers I should probably go ahead and get this out of the way: Miranda July’s book of fiction essays, “No One Belongs Here More Than You,” is one hell of a quirky book. Sure, it’s a lot of other things, and all at the same time: bleakly funny, interesting, starkly poignant, truly frustrating, [...]
Reader Submission
“Artificial Night” Lorenzo Salinas I Unit 3,021 was warming – warming in preparation for its big name client from one of the American Power Families. It – he – was stationed in a penthouse chamber on the top of Synthetic Pleasures, Inc. at the downtown bureau of Metropolis. The soaring citadel of Metropolis was [...]
