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Never Have I Ever; Or A Letter to My Childhood Bedroom
by Clara PistolRead more: Never Have I Ever; Or A Letter to My Childhood BedroomI’ve never had sex in my childhood bedroom. Never came back to it drunk, never felt like throwing up while sitting on the bed early in the morning. I never switched out my old plushies with new ones bought by new friends and new boyfriends. My window was never cracked open for people to smoke…
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Close the Curtains on your Way Out!
by Jomma GrootRead more: Close the Curtains on your Way Out!I’m walking up the stairs to the train platform, trying to hide being out of breath, attempting not to wince from the pain it is causing in my chest and my sides. I used to joke about that a couple of years ago, being exhausted just from walking the stairs in school. Now, I am…
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Run or Don’t Run: The Modern Age Capitalistic Dilemma
by Maia PopaRead more: Run or Don’t Run: The Modern Age Capitalistic DilemmaTime doesn’t make money. Money makes time. We have not been living in the present moment for a long time now. Humanity is constantly drawn out of its current state, into a hyperreality governed by the screens in our pockets, a consciousness displaced into someone else’s life, another country’s environment. We spend hours mindlessly scrolling,…
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Fascism, Eugenics and The Martian Frontier: Must We Burn Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Read more: Fascism, Eugenics and The Martian Frontier: Must We Burn Edgar Rice Burroughs?The streets of Milan were littered with empty bullet shells and concrete rubble. Out of a desolate street came strolling an American soldier. He was chewing gum and carried a comic book in the back pocket of his military uniform. Sitting down next to an Italian boy amid the ruins of a Europe that was…
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