Category: Arthur Mulder
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Flash Fiction Competition 2023 – Second Place: Report A27 on There Are Three Rules for Walking Through the Woods
Read more: Flash Fiction Competition 2023 – Second Place: Report A27 on There Are Three Rules for Walking Through the WoodsFight between a Tiger and a Buffalo, by Henri Rousseau Report to be circulated among sergeants, staff-sergeants, and first-lieutenants of the Root-513 Subcommittee. It is generally believed to have started somewhere a little west of Cincinnati. Several researchers have gone on the record stating it emanated from a diner called ‘Barleycorn’s Cold Spring Restaurant’ located…
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Rebel Ridge, or Black Superman Fist-fighting the American Justice System
Read more: Rebel Ridge, or Black Superman Fist-fighting the American Justice System“The Kadats of America, Chicago’s most loved young Black drill team, shown performing…” by John H. White Conflict is the engine of history. Necessity is not the mother of invention; spite, disagreement and ambition are. Stormless seas carry no ships and calm waters lack the beauty of ripples. In fiction it is much the same.…
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Cosy Up with our Halloween Movie Picks!
Read more: Cosy Up with our Halloween Movie Picks!In October, there is nothing better than curling up on the couch under a velvety, rusty-orange blanket with a cup of Autumn Storm tea—except, perhaps, doing it while watching your favourite Halloween movie. Here at Writer’s Block, we have been looking forward to this time of year since the start of the academic calendar. Our…
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Police Media in Limbo: The Faith and Future of a Sinful Genre
Read more: Police Media in Limbo: The Faith and Future of a Sinful GenreSynoptic Table of Physiognomic Traits: Eyes, Alphonse Bertillon The current distrust of police is the culmination of a long history rather than a new development. Black Lives Matter has its roots in American civil rights and the abolition movement before it. The 1992 LA riots were a response to boundless oppression and generational trauma as…
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John Wick, Our 21st Century Sisyphus
Read more: John Wick, Our 21st Century SisyphusLego toy, by Nik (Includes spoilers for the John Wick-franchise) “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” -Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus The rule of action-movies is that immediate incentive trumps general motivation. When action star number 63 flails towards his goal in…
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