Creative Writing – Page 71

Gary’s Off-the-Map Movie Pick: Gentlemen Broncos

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Gary Walker / By Gary Walker

From Jared Hess, the mind that brought the universe Napoleon Dynamite, comes Gentlemen Broncos, a 2009 film about bad science fiction, intellectual property, independent filmmaking, blow darts, geodome living, and nightgowns. If you’re looking for something funny and a little unusual, this could be the one for you. The protagonist of Gentlemen Broncos, Benjamin, is a young science fiction […]

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Rational Thinking: The Life of Real Possibilities

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Eric Stephenson / By Eric Stephenson

The other day, a 17-year-old told me she didn’t think there was life beyond Earth. I mentioned the recent discovery by NASA scientists of seven potentially habitable exoplanets in a solar system just 39 light years away and suggested that astronomers will find a second Earth very soon. I also pointed out that scientists have

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Confessions of a Derby Dame

Creative Nonfiction, Open Channel / By a featured contributor

I could hear the wheel bearings of my skates spin with each revolution as I smiled at my friends and watched them take their seats. I tried to project the appearance of calm experience and a confidence I didn’t feel. I knew enough about my competition to understand that if I showed even a hint

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Capitalist Sonnet

Creative Writing, Poetry, Writings, Writings / By Malcolm McCollum

“Nothing Social Distances Like a Jeep!” (TV Message, 6/6/20) This baby knows nothing at all of shame. If he soils himself, his parent, diaper, bib, Look! New! Excrement added! he proclaims, Proud of the

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Becoming a Better Person

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Shorts / By a featured contributor

Becoming a better person isn’t always easy. I remember looking back to identify the negative attitudes and thoughts that used to contribute to my unhappiness. My behavior was governed mostly by the feeling that I was owed something. I would become frustrated and irritable, going out of my way to do anything that would not

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The Rio Grande River: Reshaping Experience and Perspective

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Open Channel / By a featured contributor

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir A few months ago, I heard someone make a comment on getting older. They implied that as we get older, “we all reach a point when we realize there is nothing new for us to do, nothing new to discover.” I

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