After three days of rain from oppressively low clouds, the sun came out. I decided to fly for the pure joy of it. The sky was a brilliant teal. I took off in my Cessna 150 from Quonset Airport and headed north by northwest. I flew towards Pascoag, Rhode Island. It was a short flight, […]
The snow fell like fading memories. Fast flakes. Then… gone. Brumpumpum bumps. The struggling motor moaned like a ghost in the dark. Dark? Why was the sky not dark? Where was the moon… the stars? My blinking eyes were hazy against the orange sky. It was not yet golden – not yet gone. Me, lonely […]
1992: It’s middle school, and everybody feels awkward. The Providence Public School system is doing what it can with its resources. School lunch is the highlight of the day. Many families fall below the poverty line. They’re able to gather, eat, and socialize. The walls are brick and brutalistic by design. The tables are oval-shaped […]
An old man sat on a plastic chair on his patio, drinking sweet, black coffee. He was thinking about the same skinny, barefoot girl. They ran around together when he was eighteen. He hadn’t seen her in years – ever since her family moved to the capital. But hardly a week went by where he […]
Wine was in his blood. It was a reputation that traced back to the old world, to his grandfather. Dino DeLorenzo’s romantic stories – told over the dinner table in broken English – inspired him as a boy. That night, Dino the Third decided he would also become a winemaker, celebrating his semi-retirement. Even at […]
The debut adult romance novel A Love Like the Sun, by Providence writer Riss M. Nelson, is the quintessential social media love story. Released on June 11, the novel deals with relationships in the modern day, exploring the divide of intimacy in the real world and online. The plot revolves around Laniah Thompson, the main […]
“GOOD ANGELSweet Faustus, leave that execrable art.FAUSTUSContrition, prayer, repentance: what of them?GOOD ANGELO, they are means to bring thee unto heaven.EVIL ANGELRather illusions, fruits of lunacy,That makes men foolish that do trust them most.GOOD ANGELSweet Faustus, think of heaven and heavenly thingsEVIL ANGELNo Faustus, think of honour and of wealth.FAUSTUSOf Wealth!” Christopher Marlowe Dr Faustus: The […]
“MERCUTIO Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathoms deep; and then anon Drums in his ear at which he starts, And wakes, and being thus frightened swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. This is that very […]
NARRATOR: I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re […]
i.The manacles: heavy irons coursed through with rust, ghostly webs tracing the blood, sweat and tears of Africans, ripped from their lands and torn from their relations, herded across the vast Atlantic in squalid, creaking dungeons, sold at market and beaten into servitude until their exhausted bodies and spirits gave them over to death’s embrace. […]