THE EIDOLON

A few months ago, I got into a fight with this guy — let’s call him Brad — about gender equality. It was as ugly as any altercation on...

Preface From the beginning, Sapiens were greedy. Their curiosity caused them to take as much land as they could, and yet they still...

I’ve always been a passionate believer in the need for gun safety measures. Whenever I see headlines about states repealing common sense...

I stood in the doorway, shivering violently and wringing out my wet hair. As I moved farther into the large garage-like space that would...

Every day, we read more news stories and reports telling us that the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, mass extinction...

Early 2001: I’m born on the 21st of January. My parents name me Morgane de Lacey Searight Evans, or girl of the sea, conqueror of Wales,...

When you were with me I brought out the best in you I know this for a fact It can be proven simply By how you had all of these conflicts...

Oops — I’m sorry, I broke a promise today. It brought me right back to the time I snatched a fernwood twig from a bush, right back to...

One Two Four The bull paws at the white, scorching sand As the amphitheater rises to the challenge of A blazing sky And the anger is...

She was perched at the piano with fingers raw and worn. Tired was her face and weary was her form. Her feet lingered on the pedals: her...

I think it’s safe to say Today wasn’t the best of days I failed my Algebra test And in Phys Ed I didn’t get to rest Now finally I’m back...

I say “I’m sorry” — by a rough estimate — about one hundred seventy-two times a day: a possibly accurate, or probably false, figure. I...

I scoff when I hear the American dream lives That the ideas of freedom and opportunity this country was founded on will never perish That...

I know a woman who will not fly except in planes three seats next to five seats next to three She will not fly in narrow steel tubes,...

As a child I learned of the speckled night sky, in a sprawling elementary school, equipped with dark room, projector, and maps of on high....

Looking at the pale-shouldered red-haired girl, She took her greyed teeth and bit into the fuchsia popsicle. What's worse is that she...