reviews

“Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.” Author: Stephen King What would you do for $200? Andy McGee, a young college student, participates in a school science experiment, the dosage of experimental psychological drugs which leads him to find the love of his life and develop latent and minor psychic powers. Andy now has the push – a slight ability to enforce mind control which he uses in self-esteem classes. His wife, another survivor of the psychedelic and bad-trip-like experiment can move things with her mind sometimes. Mostly, [...]

“Sometimes, I think we tell each other too much.” Author: Miriam Vaswani Frontier is a gut wrenching narrative of elapsed time, haunted memories, lost chances and people, and hope. From the beginning, our narrator is an outspoken child, an enigma understood only by her brother and divorced from the world by the circumstances of rough living, specifically her debt-ridden, escape by night parents. And so it begins, this child with a foul mouth born from an adult world hoisted on her shoulders too early, a child that grows into a woman who still maneuvers in and around the world alone. [...]

Antibodies and Animus... Author:  Eula Biss Did you get your flu shot this fall? If you haven’t, you should.  It may seem obvious, but every flu shot that’s given protects not only the recipient, but everyone they come in contact with, thereby reducing the number of cases of flu each year.   And with thousands of deaths in the US each year due to flu, a momentary twinge of pain isn’t much to ask to help prevent a potentially serious disease.  If you find my argument unconvincing, I recommend On Immunity, a remarkably thoughtful exploration of the world of vaccinations, by [...]