The World According To Veronika Sprinkel – Stories from Dystopia'...

Paranoia isn’t always neurologically induced. Sometimes, it’s created. Sometimes, people seeking power harness it to cull control—a classic move from the demagogue’s playbook. Look back in history and you will see republics shaped by paranoid thinking...

...instead of spreading wildfire, I’d incinerate injustice wherever it lay. Stoke crackling flames and burn bigotry down. Render it erased. Like they did in Minneapolis, on Newark and Detroit’s long, hot summer streets. The “language of the unheard”...

My heart had shriveled up from the inside out. It desperately needed water. So I tossed my hound dog Pablo in a big silver truck and sped off for the Oregon coast. Twisting two-lane highway hummed under our wheels. Italian doom metal surged through the...

#1 life lesson learned so far: Memories manifest themselves in many ways. No two are ever quite the same — each one, its own psychological snowflake. How memory is triggered and then recalled depends on the sense through which it was conceived. One sees...