Literary Pieces
When I was about 9-years-old, I became conscious that eating candy—lots of it, made me feel better. Like how I…
The tremble of your voice during our conversation is seared into my memory. Fearless, as usual, you explained to me…
Sonnet #46 I’d be lying if something worth saying Would compel other people to hear me There’s no denying apathy’s…
Natalia didn’t quite know what it meant to suffer but she heard this term a million times. Her mother talked…
Sunrise on Upper East New York City, 1988 New York sunrise over Harlem River. Rising so amber, so Amun-Ra…
Natalia was a worried girl. Her nail beds, always red and raw from chewing and picking her opaque skin, her…
The Oracle saw all. A priestess of sight, she forsake her own womanhood in service to the gods and goddesses…
A good kenning sears right into your soul and plays music on your heart strings. A good kenning turns something…
When my sister invited me to run the San Francisco Half Marathon, I was a 24 year old college dropout…
Marta was a cute little girl, with jet-black hair and deep brown eyes. Her bronze skin and dark hair were…
I lost an old friend from high school. The news of his death was both shocking and overwhelming. I felt…
She confesses to me, “Mommy says I have to go. She gets mad when I say I don’t want to.”…
The second coming of Christ occurred on September 23rd, 1949. Jesus of Nazareth’s younger brother wasn’t born in the old…
A Coming of Rage in East Rutherford! It hardly seems possible, that three decades have come and gone since a…
Getting There. From my window seat, I can see the airport building through the haze. It is not at all…
Advocating for the wrongly condemned, “Why do we want to kill all the broken people?” On April 18th 2016 I…
A Story About Following Your Dream and Maintaining Love From a Distance After seeing the pictures, the heading and the…
Some people claim that children are the greatest blessing of all, and that we should always cherish the gift of…
In 1949, scholar Joseph Campbell published his 1st book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this book, Campbell introduced us…
We don’t like people, we don’t like small talk, we are shy, we want to be alone, and we can…
Marius Salzmann is a German AUSB alumni that switched from one former British colony to another upon graduation — and…
On October 24, 2014 horror struck for hometown hero Daniel Meynet. Growing up in Santa Ynez Valley, only about 30…
Since the beginning of time men – from Socrates, to Kent – have always tried to give an answer to…
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