Flight of the Spiteful Strigiform.
“The Owl thought no one type of human was any better than another. All of them, after all, were inferior.”
Fail-safes.
A meditation on nuclear near-misses and personal alarm systems.
What is owed and what is deserved.
About the forthcoming attempt to downplay the effects of this meaningless political exercise.
Self-Inflicted.
On the space where basic bigotry meets combat readiness.
In summary, in brief.
Try as I might, it seems impossible to miss anything.
Body language.
Portraits of decorum in the event of a political funeral.
This wretched, wretched Rubicon.
On the lines crossed by others and the lines we cross in response.
WRITE CLUB: TAKING
Write Club is a monthly, literary bloodsport in which contenders face off against each other with 7-minute essays on competing topics. This was the combatant essay for TAKING.