Marilyn Monroe has been my favorite icon for all of my life. Until her death in 1962, Marilyn was known as the “blonde bombshell” and became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s and an emblem of the era’s sexual revolution. (Wikipedia 2023). A present-day online encyclopedia’s explanation is Read More…
Category: creative non-fiction
Is it good enough? Would it be perfect?: Thirteen Rules of Writing- by Amanda Beres
Whenever I think of writing, I think of teenagers or middle schoolers. Perhaps this is because that is around the time I fell in love with writing. Perhaps it’s because most protagonists I’ve seen in books are teenagers. I was ten years old, in fifth grade, and writing poems in my notebook where notes should Read More…
This Is About Me, Not You- by Kamryn Kobel
Whenever I try to write about myself, it always ends up being about you. But this has to be about me. I have to make this about me. Me. Me, me, mine, like a mantra. Like a vow. I have to remember this, because if I don’t, I’ll start writing about you instead. I’m always Read More…
Cherry Coke- by Brooke L. Meservey
I’ll preface this with this disclaimer, I’ve got an active imagination. I like to go to my friends shows and socialize like anyone, but every time I’m there I see this woman drinking cherry coke. I know that’s what it is because I’ve heard her order it. Perhaps on occasion it was a water with Read More…
Fayez Means Victor – Google it.- by Ghenwa Elkhory
Little pebbles try to make holes in my tired legs as I sit crisscrossed on the orange and green asphalt ground in Hboub Club after practice. Coach Fayez’s voice comes from above and breaks the silence. “You’ve got to be prepared for tomorrow, girls. We need to prove that it’s worth the time to keep Read More…
Could Home Be A Prison?- by Ghenwa Elkhory
It was hard to focus during a game of checkers with my dad in the safety of our home, our home a long way from home. It was more than hard, it was impossible. I looked up at his salt-and-pepper hair and wondered if I could ever survive what he’s been through, but he breaks Read More…
Under the Cape: Covert Homosexuality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula- by Gregoire Marshal
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is subject to a queer reading. Dracula has clear homoerotic tendencies and since these tendencies are both sexual and outside the norm (i.e., evil), they must be destroyed. But the suggestion of the homoerotic does not stop there. Homosexuality is also hinted at in the use of the woman as intermediary and Read More…
Skin Care- by Barbara Gurgel
The clock strikes the hour for the ritual. You sit in front of your crowded vanity, in your towel or most likely your ‘sexy’ red bathrobe. Although 90% of the products you are about to use can be found somewhere in the cacophony of concealers and eyeshadow brushes, there will always be one product you Read More…