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April 2025
News & Notes
Like Flying a Kite
Mark Gozonsky on Hope, Children, and Letting Out the String
ByFinn Cohen• March 14, 2025
The Sun Interview
Reason To Believe
Randall Sullivan on Faith and Evil
Cohen: Do you think part of that evil spirit is found in every human?
Sullivan: I don’t think we’re born with it, but we have receptors that can connect to it, and we decide how much attention we give it, how much we turn toward its allure.
Fiction
Zombie Mom
Denise figured the mom was dead; she had to be. The dad did the shopping now, and unless the mom was traveling for work for, like, a month or something, it was the only explanation.
Point of fact: Just last month the daughter and the mom had been talking while checking out at Denise’s register, and the daughter had asked for Lunchables, and the mom had said, “You will eat those over my dead body.”
Now the dad was buying five of them a week.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Humomism
In my writing class last Thursday, Cara said it’s a shame that the word humane has human in it, as if only humans had compassion. Then Beth said it’s a problem that human has the word man in it. So we were trying to find another word. Dan suggested “humom.” Because, at our best, we are all like mothers. So maybe that can be the name of our movement: humomism.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Zuma
When you get to your father's bedroom, you see Dad shaking like a freshly fumigated bug. Your brother is by his side on the phone, his face red and sweaty, like when he's been skateboarding all day.
Readers Write
T-Shirts
Poorly—and purposefully—placed slogans, baby-goat encounters, and uncanny AOL connections
