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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Aiden Bishop has watched Evelyn Hardcastle die more than once and his only hope for salvation is to solve her murder. If this sounds confusing, it is, but after the first few chapters of “The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle” you’ll gladly buckle in for the mystery-solving ride. The book has fantastic reviews on Goodreads for good reason. Stuart Turton has crafted a story that does a great job at keeping that eternal fiction question alive throughout… “what happens next?”…more

Battle Space America

The heels of our boots strike a cadence on the old concrete flight line and my heart pounds like Thor’s hammer against the inside of my body armor. I adjust the camera strapped to my chest. The city is burning and, from what I’ve been told, we’re heading toward a firefight. Our photographers are embedding with each National Guard unit as they support civilian police. This is to document events, of course, but these images won’t make their way into the National Archives any time soon. These images will… more

I am Nothing

I pull the lump from my chest and slap it onto the yellow speckled top of the kitchen table. The black and gray mass flops over with a suction cup sound, growing as it rolls. “On your trip, if you see a monster,” the therapist said, “don’t run from it. Confront it and ask it what you can learn from it.”

 “What can I learn from you lump?” I ask, placing my hands on my hips. In the office, I feel the therapist take my hand. She is sitting in a comfortable red chair beside the blue couch where I am stretched out with a black mask over my eyes and white headphones over my ears. She is my psilocybin tour guide, my LSD Jedi, nudging me farther down the…more