Truth be told, Miriam was terrified of her grandson. When she looked at Mikie, she saw a shrunken version of her son. A brown cowlick sat straight up on his head like a pickaxe. The look of a serial killer flashed over his eyes when he was crossed. For Miriam, the pictures in her photo albums never aged. Life repeated itself in a continuous loop. “It’ll only be…

Don’t judge people until you know what they are going through. That’s the big lesson a father in Houston, Texas learned after confronting his son’s bully. Recently, Aubrey Fontenot learned that his son, Jordan, was being bullied by a 13-year-old child at his school named Tamarion.  Fontenot approached Tamarion, who said he was being bullied, too….

Several thousand on Victory square in front of the government headquarters demonstrating against the proposal to ease anti-graft legislation on 2 February, 2017.NurPhoto/ Press Association.All rights reserved. Over the weekend of 10-12 August 2018, Romanian and international media were filled with images of government violence against peaceful protesters. Roughly 120,000 people filled Victory Square in…

Stanley E. Smith’s two years of sailing with his wife and four children aboard the 38-foot ketch Babauko in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Ionian seas provided the background for his first short story in 1964. Smith taught journalism at Michigan State University after a Fulbright grant had taken him to Denmark and France to lecture. “Blow Us Something Good, Sirocco”…

If you could walk a mile in an NFL player’s shoes, what could you learn? According to the Los Angeles Rams: humility, character, persistence. That’s the idea behind their Cleats for Character initiative, in which the Rams donate football cleats and athletic shoes worn by players on the 2017 roster to L.A. high school football…

Protest against corruption in Guatemala demanding the resignation of the ex-president in 2015. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Todos los derechos reservados. The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (ICAIG) was created on the 12th of December 2006 through an agreement with the UN and the Guatemalan government, after a favourable ruling by the Constitutional Court. The…

The 2015 Great American Fiction Contest is now open! To enter the contest, and for more information, . Edward Kindy stood at his window and studied the crest of the ridge a mile away. He paid no attention to the budding trees, or the cloudless sky, or the grazing cattle sprinkled like pepper over the…

If you’re a woman, in some ways this might be the least surprising story you’ll see all day. But it’s still an important one that confirms some of the worst behavior patterns women around the world face when participating in activities most men can safely take for granted. In Brazil, the advertising agency Ogilvy tested…

Jasper C. Graf was far and away the best mortician we ever had in our town. At the time this all happened about the Arab woman and the uranium hunter, we had two, but he was far and away the best. If you live in a big town maybe you never think of morticians, or…

While the Trump Administration continues to play tug of war with undocumented families, there’s another immigration issue brewing. On June 12, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it was launching a new agency that focuses on repealing naturalization citizenship from people who have committed fraud on their application, The Associated Press reports. “We finally…