US Represented

Eric Stephenson

Eric Stephenson served in Alpha Company, 2/75th Ranger Battalion from 1982 to 1987. He has taught English at various colleges and universities since 1998 and is the publisher and editor-in-chief of US Represented, as well as a contributing writer.

Parental Guilt

In the corner of the park, thick-bodied children splash violently in the waterworks, blameless until that day they too inherit parental guilt. Careening spastically into each other and shrieking under the blistering sun, they don’t yet question the mistakes made for life on Earth.

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Reincarnation as an Incidental Necessity

Whether literally or figuratively, reincarnation deserves attention in a rarely considered context. It extends beyond conventional Western thinking by assuming that previous and future lives are elements of a threaded ongoing reality. This begs the question of how one feeds the desire to recover intellectual, emotional, and physical health. What happens when someone strives to

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