Culture Essay by Michael Smith — Excerpt: As a schoolboy I was shocked, outraged even, that a creature could have its entire existence limited to just one day.
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Writing Against Oblivion
Culture Essay by J.D. Isip — Excerpt: If we are honest, we all want to be ghosts.
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Writing through Disenfranchised Grief
Craft Essay by Marie Cloutier — Excerpt: I purchased a notebook and a pen and thought how I might fill the book.
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Culture Essay by Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: The only question left for you to consider now is what happens when Mickey shows his shadows—his deeper, fallible, more steeped-in-sin-human qualities—over what audiences have been conditioned to expect.
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Smells Like Home
Culture Essay by Parul Desai Shah — Excerpt: “A buyer said the house smelled. Like spices,” Nina stated with dramatic condemnation. This was a bullet wound to my family’s soul.