Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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“Blood” by Susan Taylor Chehak
All you have to do is spit into a plastic vial and put it in the mail and send it off somewhere, and then in a couple of weeks you’ll get the results, and these are going to tell you who you are.
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“Far Cry from Catalonia” by Chris Marchesano
Both men plodded down the hallway, ignoring the clean linen they knocked off service carts. They found her in a freshly bleached room, just before the barricaded emergency exit. She was working coins from the bedside table into her apron.
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Featured Art: Fabrice Poussin
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Mythic Humor and Personal Vendettas: Kansastan by Farooq Ahmed
By Couri Johnson In his new novel Kansastan, Farooq Ahmed mixes dystopia with myth, the Old West with the Old Testament, and creates a narrative that is full of both humor and dread. His un-named narrator, a goatherd abandoned at a mosque in war-torn Kansas, both garners the sympathy of readers while repulsing them.
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My Body is Bound: The Inevitability of Auto-Theory for this Creative Writer
By Em Tielman Auto-Theory is a contemporary form of writing said to blend critical theories with personal [embodied] experience. Think of the fiction workshop adage “write what you know” amended to “write what you directly sense with what you suspect to be true” and you may begin to conceive of how this blending occurs.
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Spiritual Expression Through the Persona Poem
by Patti Jeane Pangborn I have always been drawn to works of literature that deal with some aspect of spirituality, such as writings about religious figures, sacred spaces, mystical symbols, or writings that feature a character’s relationship to their spiritual beliefs.
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“As When the Truth is Used to Hurt and so Can be the Truth No Longer” by Alec Hershman
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“Not a Nice Girl” by Lisa Shirley
Vitriol surges beneath my skin and I want to slap everyone who says, with a smile, “How’s it going?”
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“Goshen, Indiana” by Hunter Boone
My mother and I eat Amish pie at a place on Oak and 6th.
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“Imago Dei” by Kabel Mishka Ligot
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