Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Why I Won’t Be Celebrating the 4th of July Early

ESSAY

To commemorate the one week anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, Brian Eckert chugs Budweiser and chants “USA!” Or not.

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Creative Non-Fiction is Lying. Lying Kind of Bites.

ESSAY

James Bernard Frost gets in his two cents about the Greg Mortenson scandal.

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Tell Me Lies

ESSAY

Simon Smithson tells a true story about lies, liars, and the sad truth between them.

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Family Truth

HUMOR

The truth about UFOs, Santa Claus, and Judaism is out there, but Summer Block isn’t particularly interested in finding it.

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Love and Death in Africa (The Journal Entries, Volume I)

MEMOIR

All aboard the stream-of-consciousness express.

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The Girl Who Cried Crusher

MEMOIR

Some lies are only lies insofar as we don’t know we’re telling the truth.

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Lies, Damn Lies

NEWS & POLITICS

Marni Grossman on the Texas Board of Education’s effort to reeducate students.

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Cherry Picking

ESSAY

Brin Friesen goes over a little of what was left out about a girl in a story he wrote and why it was left out. He touches on bridges and rivers and apples and serial killers along the way.

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Twenty Dollars

MEMOIR

When I was in fifth grade, I was in love with Shirlene DuJack. We used to draw pictures of TIE fighters together. It was the ideal relationship. The only problem was that the school bully, Wayne DeCourte, was also in love with Shirlene DuJack. A fact which I found annoying. Apparently he felt similarly, because [...]

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