by Sean Wayman By the word grottesco the Renaissance […] understood not only something playfully gay and carelessly fantastic, but also something ominous and sinister in the face of a world totally different from the familiar one—a world in which the realm of inanimate things is no longer separated from those of plants, animals, and human …
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by Kasey Butcher Santana The bears paced in an enclosure that featured a series of stone cottages. I stood transfixed, watching them in their fairytale until, with a surge of adrenaline, I realized that the rest of the family had moved on without me. I was four years old and knew not to talk to …
by Jessica L. Pavia When Dad calls me, he is still getting over a cold. His voice is congested; he sounds young and vulnerable. But I know Dad, and I imagine his large frame sitting at his desk in his office, Mom’s reading glasses sitting precariously on the tip of his nose. While typically one …