by Ben D’Alessio **You can find the Original, 200+ movie rating list here.** **You can find List 2–5/28/2020–5/26/2021 — here.** **… List 3 6/9/2021–5/25/2022 — here** All rankings are personal and combine my own enjoyment, my opinions on the quality of acting, story, effects, visuals, dialogue, etc. Movies are rated…

A Poem

By Ben D’Alessio **This story first appeared in The Bookends Review (7/27/2022)** Within the first ten seconds of You Won’t Be Alone, an intriguing-enough-sounding movie with Noomi Rapace concerning a witch in Macedonia, a cat is eaten alive by some creature off-screen. …

By Ben D’Alessio *You can find the Original, 200+ movie rating list here.** **You can find List 2 5/28/2020–5/26/2021 — here.** **… List 3 6/9/2021–5/25/2022 — here** **.. List 4 6/17/2022–3/11/2023 — here** *I will be starting a new list after the Oscars each year instead of my previous model…

By Mec Faron Life is short, but it’s shorter for my enemies. This here? This was Prince Abdulrahman III, the last of his line, so long as my men locate his pregnant wives. After those same men eliminated his sortie, and after I used the few that survived the slaughter…

By Ben D’Alessio Sure, this’ll sound boujie, but I had a massage the other day and my masseuse was a black man with an accent and I wanted to ask him where he was from. In the latest public service announcement of speech policing from the over-educated, way too online…

By Ben D’Alessio I like books. I don’t just mean the stories, characters, historical recitations, or analyses inside of them, but the bound pieces of paper themselves. My bookshelf is my happy place. Oftentimes, I’ll stand in front of it and run my fingers across the worn spines of its…

A Short Story By Ben D’Alessio London, 1348 “The dregs of men alone survive to witness.” I didn’t know what it meant, but it was written on the wall across the street from my window, near William’s house. I was told I mustn’t leave my room. Grandfather was having one of his…

By Ben D’Alessio According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, Columbus coming to America was “the most significant thing to ever happen in our species”. In short, his expedition rejoined two branches of humankind that had been separated since the Ice Age. With this being said, how come Christopher Columbus’ statues…