Unpredictability and Chance: Baseball in Fiction
words by Brandon Hendrick painting by Norman Rockwell Baseball is a sport defined by a clear logic. There are a set of rules that each team must follow to determine the victor. Within this structure, the ideas of unpredictability and chance are allowed to exist. A number of authors, notably American, have used baseball as […]
“If you knew Time as well as I do”
Words by Megan Goldfarb Illustration from John Tenniel, Original Illustrator Lewis Carroll’s of Alice and Wonderland The very keen reader can find mathematics woven into the story of Alice in Wonderland. Author Lewis Carroll was a conservative mathematician who opposed new additions to math such as the unit of time, which had been introduced to new arithmetic. […]
Sleeping At Night
creative nonfiction by Mashalla Mukadam I don’t mean to go to bed at 8:30 in the evening. I lay down in my queen-sized bed with my one-year-old son, in hopes he will fall asleep quickly, so that I can come back into the living room with you. Sometimes, I find myself falling asleep with him, waking […]
Common Eyes
flash fiction by Lauren Chartuk She looked at me plainly, as I did her. She tried to smile. Instead she just bared her teeth. They were relatively straight. How are you? I barely saw her mouth move. I’m okay, all right, not bad… not great. I felt an involuntary shrug. She matched me, What have […]
The MFA
interview by Carla Dominguez photography by John Dijulio When I met with John Mclaughlin at the Anderson House for this interview the first thing he asked me was, “You’re not going to write about me as Mr. Mclaughlin, are you?” I asked him if he preferred Professor Mclaughlin, and he laughed. “I go by Jack,” […]