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Brooklyn – Beirut is a reflection on leaving Beirut, the city and the state of mind, which is trapped somewhere between the Mediterranean and several nations set ablaze.

I think Rick Ross was playing. Some track about droptop Maybachs and spraying champagne on Puerto Rican girls with fat asses.

I just want to throw in the sack, / flap jack, slap it up and saddle on / been sick of this race since long ago / lethargy evolved from let-it-go,

Brave banners are wind-dashed and mud-stained, / and hat plumes hang sodden. She does not feel the / sleet, only the iron of her convictions.

Twist the doorknob to the apartment, walk inside, and it’s, “I’m holding a doctor’s letter saying my daughter wants a sex change operation into a man. That true?”

It was the ancient Greeks who coined the term “hysteria”; Hippocrates, in fact. It means the disease of the movement of the uterus.

In Memory and Consciousness (1985), Endel Tulving’s theory of memory systems is divided into three types: procedural, semantic and episodic.

When I was in the first grade, I convinced my father to take me to see the original Batman movie. It was 1989.

We are thrilled to publish the first act of the three-act sci-fi play, “Imagine the City,” by playwright and writer Darine Hotait.

When we were fourteen, we were noticed.

He wants to go a year backward. The evidence of this desire is the date he writes on all of the release forms.

My Mum kissed my Dad in the back of that mosque / When it was still the Gaumont —

I am gripping my chest as my colleague attempts to reassure me. “The paramedics will be here soon,” she says.

Several years ago, while writing a philosophy dissertation about moral saints and drinking ungodly quantities of coffee at night, I came across two real-life stories that ended up having a profound effect on me.

I had finally begun to build a home of my own. Unsettled and confused after college, I moved to Monterey, a coastal town in California, where I was amongst friends and working as a preschool teacher.

I knew a lot had changed in my part of town since I left because cafes had cropped up all over the place, like small checker pieces from other boards migrating over to ours.