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Non-fictionOverwatch
The rooftop was somebody’s home before the war made it a position. Concrete. A low wall. A laundry line gone to rust in the…
Non-fictionWar Season
War comes around again because there is always a market for men who want to sound grave on television. They put on the face.…
Essays, Featured, Non-fictionAI Is in the Creative Process Now. What Still Belongs to the Creator?
Generative tools can mimic style and accelerate craft. The harder question is what authorship means when creation becomes collaboration.
Essays, Non-fictionThe Acropolis Caryatids of the Erechtheion and Michelangelo’s Medici Tomb Sculptures: A Sublime Synchronicity
(All photographs by the author and Joanne Murphy) December 2025 _____________________________________________ Nonacademic writers choosing to discuss aspects of a particular masterpiece of art history…
Non-fictionRoom 212
Mr. Schneider always said he taught history the way a man might carry a hot pot across a kitchen—quick enough not to get burned,…
Non-fictionOpelousas Summer
I must have been twelve that summer—the age when a boy is old enough to be handed a task but still too young to…
Non-fictionAs Ash Falls
Texas heat lay on the patio like a wet dog. The boards sweated under bottles. The fans pushed the air around and it came…
Non-fictionThe Hurt Vote
They vote to hurt the other man. That’s what it looks like. They don’t vote for roads or bread or doctors or better schools…
Non-fictionPushing Potatoes at a Point in Time
A colorful mural climbed the wall of a building perched at the corner and I crossed toward its sunbathed warmth then stopped. Stretched across…
Non-fictionLove Springs from Descendants of the Personal Ad
When my thirty-year-old nephew told me he had, after a heart rending break up, begun to see some of the women he was meeting…
Non-fictionDay 98449509735209
Journal, today was a long day. I woke up before four in the morning, which, even by spiritual-practice standards, is not normal. My neck…