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Condemned to Relive.

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by Benjamin White.

The nation is built on false narratives
Orchestrated by the unquestioned facts
Operating on the poor reflections

Manipulated by historical
Understandings of the benevolence
Created by the projected image
Hollowing out the scene of honesty

Fabricating the nostalgic comfort
Of time and place that never existed –
Remembered in the longing for the past
Gathered in melancholy suffering
Even though it’s only a mental game
Thinking through the realities to find
The false memories of desire and hope
Infiltrating perspectives to forget,
Neglect, and simply deny what matters
Going forward into condemned darkness

Summer 1980.

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by Sean Murphy. Who am I to speak of the dead or even dare to presume it’s my place to do so? Because I was there, aware —even at ten—this was something nobody would ever forget. An era when news was on the news, and word of mouth, always the best way to convey everything […]

Wimme Saari, a Finn.

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by Diana Morley. sings indigenous music in no hurry— he begins with silence then opens the door where small cold birds sing along, woke by sound carrying over lakes and land iced over for months a random cracked twig as the bass clarinet feels its way as companion to voice all echoes over land so […]

Shaggy Dog.

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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. What did the Sufi master say to the hotdog vender? Wait. I’m sorry, I seem to have forgotten the punchline to that joke. I must be getting old. Give me a minute. If I think for a bit, perhaps I’ll remember what I was going to say. It was going to […]

“You Always Remembered My Name!”

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by David D. Horowitz. During the past several decades various polls have exposed Americans’ ignorance about our history, constitution, and government. Do we forget too much or do we ignore too much? Or both? To forget one must first have remembered, but too few people commit to memorizing details unless they are about themselves. It […]

Forgotten Female Scholars of Medieval Islam.

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by Zhinia Noorian and Brian Griffith. Back during the Arab–Persian Abbasid empire, before women were barred from religious leadership, we find records of many female officials or scholars. Queen Qatr al-Nada, the wife of caliph al Mu’tadid (r. 892–902 CE), served as court judge, passing verdicts on legal cases brought by the public at her […]

The Blank Spot in Our Brains.

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by Ellen Morris Prewitt. When my mother began to suffer from macular degeneration, her eye doctor told her she should no longer drive. She had a hole in her retina, but her brain would not let her see it as a hole. Her hard-working brain would use past data to predict what it thought should […]

Pareidolia Games.

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by Peter Onelio. Perhaps the immobility of the things around us is imposed on them by our certainty that they are themselves and not anything else, by the immobility of our mind confronting them. —Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way   If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. […]

Cyborg Memories.

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by Tom Ball. It was the year 2086 A.D that Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease were cured. And eternal youth came soon after. Anyone born in the year 1971 or later, that was still alive, was perked up completely. They cured Alzheimer’s with new genetic therapy, which altered some of one’s genes. However, all people […]

Forgetting.

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by Caitlin O’Halloran. I once lost my hairbrush and spent an entire evening looking for it. My mother always said I’d never get anywhere in life if I couldn’t keep track of my things. “You’re just like your father,” she’d tell me. My father could never remember anyone’s name. On the rare occasions when we […]