When I first saw the news story I skipped it. I didn’t want to know. The accused vampire was seventy-seven years old. A powerful American icon with a net worth of a third of a billion dollars. Among the honors bestowed on him were over a dozen honorary doctorate degrees and the beloved title of “America’s Dad.” My husband asked, “Did you hear about Bill Cosby?” “I’ve seen the article.
Recently, troubled teenagers in residential treatment programs throughout America have been brutally marched to death, sexually abused, raped, electrocuted over 30 times a day (warning: upsetting video), restrained unnecessarily until nearly dead, and more. However, the gory details of several cases aren’t the worst part. The worst part, according to testimony before Congress and much evidence, is that the abuse is ongoing. The suggested scope of the matter is rarely
Hello USR readers, The volume of our work continues to reflect our diversifying audience. In “How to Find Gratitude on Aisle Four,” Jerome Parent notes, “A game I play with myself is figuring out the hunters, gatherers, and farmers. Taking after our ancestors, people act out different roles of acquiring food at the store.” In Sandra Knauf’s novel, Zera and the Green Man: Chapter Eight, Zera returns to Ute Springs: “As they drove
Hello USR readers, This past week has been a bit historic for us at US Represented. We celebrated our new Galleries layout with “Mystery and Motherhood: An Interview with Lindsay Hand.” Here, Lindsay Deen discusses a host of topics with Lindsay Hand, one of the most talented artists on the Colorado Front Range. We ran the interview in conjunction with the Lindsay Hand Art gallery, which features some of her
Your eyes are not deceiving you! This cat has a purple face. His name is Sammy, and he’s a foster kitten that my mother-in-law is housing. She provides a foster home for cats from the Humane Society, taking on special cases and nursing them back to health so they can be adopted. Sammy is what’s called a Lilac Lynx-Point Siamese; all the normally brown Siamese “points” are lavender instead of
