I couldn’t watch the video of that white cop, face hard as rock as he implacably strangled the life out of the Black man with his knee. Murder in broad…
Friendship
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Restoration
by Guest Contributor July 30, 2020Image Credit: Touann Gatouillat Vergos Money is the opposite of magic. Art is magic. The worlds of art and money are constantly intermingling. To survive this mixture the magic in…
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Pajarito de los Montes
by Guest Contributor May 19, 2020When the patrol car pulled to a stop on the dirt road two fields away and three Police officers piled out, we never imagined they were coming for us. A…
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WOVEN: An Architectural Salvage
by Guest Contributor March 18, 2020WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Image Credit: All grave site photos by Sarah Laurentius The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world.” William S. Burroughs …
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Sex, Sax, and Smoothies: Confessions of a Teenage Dave Matthews Fan
by Guest Contributor December 27, 2019In the winter of my junior year in high school, my mom and dad took a ten-day trip to China, leaving me at home to fend for myself. It was,…
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WOVEN: Grace
by Guest Contributor December 4, 2019WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Plans
by Guest Contributor August 20, 2019When I was ten, and my sister, Eunice, was eleven, we made a suicide pact. With a rusty hacksaw we snitched from my father’s workbench; we huddled on the wooden…
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WOVEN: We Pay
by Guest Contributor August 7, 2019WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Telling
by Guest Contributor July 12, 2019Image Credit: Dev Murphy My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…
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WOVEN: on spilling open
by Guest Contributor February 20, 2019WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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Where To Dump a Body in Caledon
by Guest Contributor July 31, 2018Image credit: Jennifer Pagliaro / Toronto Star Writers André Babyn and Jess Taylor became friends in Toronto, Ontario, but are originally both from Caledon, Ontario, a rural area known for…
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Feta: A Slice of Love
by Guest Contributor July 23, 2018Living in Thessaloniki, Greece, in the shadow of Mount Olympus, it feels only natural to claim being shot by Eros’s arrow. [Cupid only works in Italy and was unavailable –…
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Not Otherwise Specified
by Alaina Symanovich June 14, 2018Image: Gulf of Mexico during Hurricane Hermine You should know that I was never bulimic. Not bulimic-bulimic. You should also know that the first time I made myself throw…