POETRY | The world tried to teach me numbness — I refused.
Editor’s Note In this powerful poem, writer Noah Vale explores what it means to refuse numbness in a world that demands it. Through intimate prose that blurs the line between philosophy and poetry, Vale examines how institutions treat sensitivity as malfunction, and how deep feeling becomes an
FICTION | What if… Sir Isaac Newton had gone to the Doctor instead of lying beneath an Apple Tree?
In this playful short story, Mario Fernández Carrasco reimagines history through the eyes of a precocious child named Isaac, who uses Newton’s apple-inspired discovery to challenge his teacher (and his classmates) to seek answers beyond the classroom walls. Mario Fernández Carrasco is a scre