Creative Writing – Page 109

Of Cogs and Culture: The Steampunk Renaissance

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Writings / By a featured contributor

Being a Short Treatise on the Prevalence of Steampunk, or Neo-Victorian Retro-Futurism in Modern Society and Its Associated Philosophical, Social, and Artistic Implications Take three parts science fiction creativity, two parts mechanical ingenuity, and one part aesthetic sensibility. Stir delicately, strain through late 19th Century technology and fashion, and viola: Steampunk. Put simply, the Steampunk […]

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We have to move on. . . .

Creative Nonfiction, One Good Paragraph / By a featured contributor

One thing all the founding fathers have in common is that they are dead. We are the ones who are alive, we are the ones who must make the laws and constitution work, juggling many variables the founders could never have foreseen. They created an America in which black people were deemed to be property

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How We Create Killer Cops

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Jerome Parent, Nonfiction / By Jerome Parent

We had just finished waxing and buffing the floors at the old Simms Supers grocery store on Airport Road. It was ten thirty on a Friday night. We were teenage boys with cars, money in our pockets, and nowhere to go. We smoked cigarettes while debating whether to go to Pizza Hut to eat or

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Aw, hell no!

Creative Nonfiction, Jerome Parent, Nonfiction / By Jerome Parent

“Jonathon, NO!” I grabbed for my three-year-old’s hand and pulled him back from the curb. His other hand was held by his aunt, who was so busy talking to my wife that she didn’t notice that Jonathon was about to step off of the curb right into the path of a car that was turning

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Who is Bristol Palin’s Baby Daddy?

Creative Nonfiction, Jerome Parent, Nonfiction / By Jerome Parent

There are those who argue that the question of who is responsible for Bristol Palin’s current condition is nobody’s business but hers and her paramour’s. I disagree. But first, I want to make it clear that I am not engaged in slut shaming. Ms. Palin is a grown woman who can have sex whenever and

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Princess Night

Creative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Writings / By a featured contributor

Twelve years ago, Pastor Paul Palmer and his wife felt the nudge to move their family from California to Atlanta and plant the Atlanta Dream Center in one of the poorest, most desperate parts of the city. As a younger man, Pastor Paul had lived through a painful history of drug and alcohol abuse, violence,

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