A Midwest Girl
FICTION, FUTURENothing stays the same and the world will always keep moving forward, as one girl learns from her father in this story of small-town Minnesota.
FICTION
FICTION: We love fiction perhaps more than other type of writing. Unlike nonfiction, rooted in data, source-driven narratives, and real-life experience, fiction allows us to explore important issues with a certain amount of freedom, creativity, and flare. We can visit worlds where the capitalists have already been defeated. We can reflect on a future where racism, sexism, ageism is no more.
The thing about fiction is that there are no rules. Words can become anything and everything on the page. And there is no telling what might happen next. While the world outside offers plenty to ponder, to rage and fight against, here we are able to disappear, transport ourselves an leave the world behind.
While praxis will always be what leads us to liberation, it is the stories, inspiring, heartbreaking, important, that fill our hearts in the meantime. We are nothing without these stories. This section is dedicated to these stories and the authors who write them.
Sad Dog: Heartbreak in Rural Minnesota
FICTION, FUTUREThat girl Lily left in June and… there’s not much difference between a dog and a man when they’re down and out like that.
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The Seasons
FICTION, FUTUREMy memories are made of brick and cement and glass. My dreams are bathed in the waning sunlight of an autumn day. Long shadows creep over fences and pull at the sidewalk as the sun begins to set. My dreams are apples picked from trees and flat piano notes from songs I never learned how to play.
The Future
FICTION, TRAVELOn the island you can become a part of the ocean and the sand and the sky and the sun that are greater than anything people could ever build.
When the World Becomes Water
FICTIONWater is not something you can hold onto. It’s not something you can grasp, or something you can build a house on. But you can float, swim, boat, ride waves like California and Hawaii.
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Lazy Days, Falling Asleep, Stuck in School, Dreaming
FICTIONIt’s something that makes too much sense. Like watching a car crash/auto accident and subsequent fistfight on an LA highway, or M&Ms after getting high at midnight.
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The Cruelty of Children
FICTION, HUMANITYThere are those who say that cruelty is learned, and not inherent – the result of trauma and abuse. Freud’s view was that it occurs naturally, based in biology and psychology and a part of human nature.
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A Moral Boy
FICTIONSometimes grandma just sits at the edge of the window sill. Rocking back and forth. Like she would in her rocking chair wen she was still alive. Sometimes that’s enough.
The Unchanging Nature of People
FICTION, HUMANITYWe stand in front of long white walls: No pictures, or wallpaper, or paintings, or even scuff marks to show that we used to live between them.
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Everything So Beautiful and Dirty and Absurd
FICTIONAll the kids have dirty noses they wipe on their sleeves. There is a lot of truth to be found on the sleeves of children from the hood.
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