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The Penelopiad

It was stupid of Icarius to try to drown the daughter of a naiad, however. Water is our element,...

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also...

You wake up with the answer to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer...

For the fourth time in as many years, they were confronted with the problem of what birthday...

The political union of 1707 had been preceded by a natural one over 400 million years earlier....

It was deadening winter, one of those feeble afternoons with coal smoke for light, but I found...

The Nineties began on January 1 of 1990, except for the fact that of course they did not. Decades...

The Fix Douglas Langley owned a little sandwich shop at the intersection of Fourteenth and T...

Granny C always looked a little sad. And why not? Wheat was her son. Charlene hated the woman...

There is a familiar moment on any walk of reasonable length. Our sense of time undergoes an almost...

“White babes don’t do nothing for me. You know that.” “Bullshit, your fucking hard-on woke me up.”...

The demonstrations continued for several days, during which dozens of people were killed; but the...