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Climate Fiction
During the Fall 2018 semester, I taught a course on the emerging literary genre called “Cli-Fi” (or climate fiction). The course examined short stories, novels, films, and various other forms of narrative fiction that concern themselves with climate change or global...
Sunken
My earliest memory is of my mother bathing, in a wooden tub moved in front of the fireplace. Dirty blonde hair pulled up on her head, her pale form outlined in an orange glow, steam rising up from the water and swirling around her face, as though she was some...
The Incalculable Malice of the Everyday
“Be as quiet as you can.” “No one’s gonna hear me over the sound of that.” He pointed to their cozy, two-story home, lit up with flames. “It doesn’t matter. They’re radicals. If they find us, they’ll shoot us in the fucking face. We have to keep moving,” said Brad. He...
Machine Messiah
The words flashed intermittingly, a half second pulse, on the screen and backwards on his face. The sun had gone down outside and, engrossed in finishing his work, the man hadn't yet turned on any lights leaving the dim glow of the liquid crystal display as the room's...
Eco Act
History is a subject I struggled with throughout school. It just never settled right with me, and I could never keep the dates right. For the longest time, I thought that the Civil War happened in the 20th Century, just two-hundred years ago. God, I was so stupid. So...
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