Dec 12, 2019 | Creative Non-Fiction
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” –Darth Vader On October 30, 2012, Disney announced its plans to buy Lucasfilm for four billion dollars. Since then, Disney has released four Star Wars films and made over four billion, eight hundred dollars. Disney has...
Dec 6, 2018 | Creative Non-Fiction
When my partner and I arrived at my terminal at JFK, I pulled my tattered suitcase out of the trunk — my fingers leaving their damp prints clinging to the handle. Jayson insisted on lugging it the rest of the way to the airport. “No, I can do this by myself,” I told...
Dec 6, 2018 | Creative Non-Fiction
I. The Egg “I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you” – Charles Bukowski, “Bluebird” The train, chugging towards the station, moved through a beautiful landscape of fir trees and chirping bluebirds. We were sitting at the front, soaking the scenery...
Dec 6, 2018 | Creative Non-Fiction
The game’s coming to an end. Quit watching that silly sport. My grandfather loved poker. He hated anything distracting me from the game, especially when it was getting late and the Sixers were on. Two dollars, he said. My grandfather had something. He never bluffed....
Dec 6, 2018 | Creative Non-Fiction
It’s in the heart of downtown, where gunfire meets corner street delis and children cross railroad tracks by themselves. Everyone knows to stay inside after seven, and even then news stories often release showing the murder of yet another fallen innocent. And yet,...
Dec 6, 2018 | Creative Non-Fiction
Laughter overflowed the car and the windows opened to let it out, to let it out and for it to be lost in the wind. And lost in the drive was the mind, the mind that only left burnt rubber behind and we navigated the narrow streets of Philly with slow tires and...
