Americana

Great piece. Cottom is an extraordinary writer. She gets right to the point. And she makes sense. What is surprising is that Tressie McMillan Cottom is still at the New York Times. I can think of about 500 publications that would show her the door. What is coming (it will…

Tim Barrrus

It’s all a question of risk and the odds risk plays with. Did you know that when we sit down to cards and blackjack, what we are reading is the Book of Ashes, and the room, it’s always the same game. There are only so many odds that we carry…

One Ugly Little Man

There is an emptiness in this man that cannot believe he even has to run for the position he desires. What about what we want. I failed as a writer, but not as a photographer. This photograph is tiresome. It’s overly pixilated. The photograph is juxtaposed against all the other…

I Think I Was On That Team

And Shove Toward Us

The light. Or the Darkness. Is there a choice. Or is the choice forced upon you. Mercurial. Having vanished. A full flood of blood lifts itself. Even the most overtly secluded of us can study evil in a small attention’s grace in cups. We are impotent and changed. In an…

Stepping Outside of Convention

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