Sunday, January 25, 2015
FUSION Meets the Fuze:
Student Creative Nonfiction Contest
Stories Based on Real Life: We’re looking for writing that is vital, ripe and engaging. Writing that pushes past or against literary or life’s boundaries, plays with style and form, and makes its own rules.
Moral Economy: An Original Economic Form for the Human Condition
Teodros Kiros, PhD MAAT was to ancient Egypt as Wisdom was to ancient Greece. Wisdom was to Plato’s aristocratic regime as Maat was to Egypt’s social and political life.
Wittgenstein, Ordinary Language, and Songwriting
Pat Pattison My world shifted forever one Tuesday afternoon, decades ago, in Bob Baker’s Philosophy 1 class at the University of Minnesota. Bob was making a case for Descartes’ distinction between Appearance and Reality, and my head was swimming a bit.
Four Poems from The Paul Simon Project
Karen Lillis The Paul Simon Project (NightBallet Press, 2014) is an "album" of ten poems, one for each song title on the 1975 Paul Simon album, Still Crazy After All These Years. The poems explore subjects from relationships to class contrasts to my own take on escaping a vicious "Little Town" childhood.
The Bridge
Tim Keppel A sultry midmorning in Cali, the sky a hazy blue. Stoplight venders hustling bubble blowers, pinwheels, lollipops.
Interview with Berklee President Roger Brown
Berklee President Roger Brown interviewed by FUSION Editorial Board Member, Dr Teodros Kiros
Humiliation — An Essay On Ingmar Bergman
Sean Brennan In the final moments of Summer With Monika, Harry Lund (Lars Ekborg) reflects upon the happiest days of his life. Defeated by both his wife’s betrayal and his own newfound cruelty, Harry reminisces on their summer together.
The Things That Crushed Him
Michael Nasaruk His right leg was shaking, out of control. The golden sustain pedal beneath his foot gained momentum and kept pressing back against the low and unstable pressure of his leg.
Beneath the Skin of “Under the Skin”
Taylor Page “Under The Skin,” like most stories, relies upon a narrative that exists on the surface of the film: a seductive alien luring willing men into her grasp my means of a van that peruses the Scottish coastline.
Alien’s Ellen Ripley and NASA’s Anna Fisher
Spanning the void between fiction and reality Taylor Page Regardless of the photographer’s intent, this Life magazine’s 1985 cover of the American Astronaut Anna Fisher says it all: The New York City bread graduate Anna Lee Fisher (top) of UCLA ignites a intriguing comparison to Ellen Ripley: one of world’s most famous female heroes projected in film.
The Sun of my Smile
Laura Sekarputri Every time I look at my face in a mirror, I spot its dry skin, go away and forget the way I look. I hate the color of my skin. Like the ugly duckling, I’m the darkest among my family and friends.
The Blue Vase
Ellen Francese The empty blue vase stood on the round white table in the kitchen. Early morning light crept through the jalousie's slats and extended its fingers to the smooth surface of the vase.
The True Nature of Religion
Salome Kotsoladze Contemplating about the true nature of religion, whether or not religious beliefs lie in or outside the bounds of rationality and reasoning is something all of us have thought about. “Why religion, since so costly, has survived?”
Setting and Structure Communication — An Analysis of Langston Hughes’ “Bop”
Mateo Rodo The piece “Bop” by Langston Hughes is a dialectic expression of the Socratic method between two characters: Simple and the narrator, “I”. In this conversation, the subjects illustrate a teacher-student relationship.
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