• **You can find the original, 200+ movie rating list here.***
• ***Link to List (3) Here.***

*As list 1 became laggy with length, I decided to begin a new list of movie ratings and mini-reviews.

All rankings are personal and combine my own enjoyment, my opinions on the quality of acting…

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…

A Short Story

By Ben D’Alessio

I have the greatest job in the world. A world that appears to expand with every ship that floats into the harbor with raised banners adorned with sigils I’ve never seen. Every day I seem to hear a new language and make eye contact…

A Short Story

By Ben D’Alessio

The moon was one of those super-moons my lovely wife goes on about the night we had the Richardson-Velazquezs over for a late-night nightcap. The party was a masturbatory display of Dr. Fitzgerald’s post-impressionist acumen, which always begins with Van Gogh and ends with…

My First Day of BJJ

By Mec Faron

I was welcomed with open arms into this training facility of assassins. …

A Short Story

By Ben D’Alessio

The biggest lie you’re ever told is that America loves a comeback story.

Dr. Martin Donagle had held his Spring semester, Senior Capstone seminar in room 103, just down the hallway from his office, for the past thirteen years. An intimate classroom in Josiah…

By Ben D’Alessio

It’s April, and that means it’s time to get my (way too early) summer reading list together. The following picks are books I’ve read since the last list and think deserve notoriety for any number of reasons. Besides #1, they aren’t in any particular order.

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