Is Alien Abduction Real?

Russell O'Rourke

There are, I believe, four ways to approach the new film, “The Fourth Kind.” These four approaches are derived from J. Allen Hynek’s system of classification for alien encounters. According to Hynek, THE FIRST KIND is the sighting of a UFO (unidentified flying object). THE SECOND KIND refers to ...

Selection from Members of the Fathers

David Hock

Every day on the way to school, I saw
A BIG RUBBER COCK;

It All Started As A Joke

Maggie

There’s a pretty big leap between late-night homework and posing nude in some magazine. This is the story of how it happened.

What I've Saved

Thu-Huong Ha

I think I might love you. Sorry.

Wondering Why?

Wise Wendy

Dear Wise Wendy,
All of my friends have special skills. Some of my friends are great at driving, and other friends of mine have excellent body parts. What do I do to get a great skill?
From,
Skilless

The Helmand

Conor Gannon

Bam. B-r-ck, b-r-ck. No one is dead. No one is here.
This is a poem about my brother in Afghanistan.

Letters from the West, Part II

John Nelson

In the Fall of 1930, Soviet architect Andrei Konstantinovich Burov was part of a team assembled by Moscow to visit Detroit’s state-of-the-art factories and to establish links with America’s leading industrialists...