It was a cold day in late January. Most days in Ohio are cold then. But there was a storm approaching and temperatures had been at frozen level regularly at that point. Three days earlier, Liam Conejo Ramos was escorted by ICE to his front door, used as a decoy to arrest his father. TheContinue reading “The Scream at the Breakdown”
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A Conversation Under the Arch
This short piece was a doctoral assignment. It is a joint response to Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars and Brian Doyle’s “Joyas Voladoras.” As I enter the museum, I am immediately struck by how quiet it is. It’s a weekday, I remind myself, so I probably should have expected the low-key atmosphere. I take time toContinue reading “A Conversation Under the Arch”
Dunamis is a Book about Tyranny
In my new novel Dunamis, the universe expands. Literally. The first book, Mirrobius, touched on the fact that people can travel via shuttle to other planets, and numerous characters are from worlds other than Earth. In this new story, we actually see that play out: we see the shuttle station, the shuttle itself, and eventuallyContinue reading “Dunamis is a Book about Tyranny”
