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.

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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Public Space

I sit on a park bench under a blue spruce, surrounded by a perimeter of transients speared by the occasional jogger. Someone plays a guitar and sings the lost song. We’ve all eaten, most of them at a nearby soup kitchen, I in the office I left for a moment on a windy afternoon to

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