At a 1961 San Francisco symposium titled “Man and Civilization: Control of the Mind,” (Aldous) Huxley elaborated on what he…
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She put her hands in her back pockets. “You know I’d lay down my life for that girl.” ” I…
I’d always thought every good American took his garbage to a landfill every week, but it turns out if you…
I pulled out on the lake. If we were that close to the border I did not want to be…
What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these…
She couldn’t sleep for the wind’s tiresome argument with the house. A minor player in the argument, almost a bystander,…
He let out the fawn from the shed, fed it from his hand, held the pan of milk mixed with…