Once a month a bell would ring summoning the entire household into the sitting room. The two aunts, Offred, the driver of the Commanders car and wife would join together in the room. Then they would take their proper seats. Protocol mixed in with petty power …
Read the Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale Part 1 The Handmaid’s Tale Part 2. Some things changed when Gilead replaced the USA. Every one kept to the social ranking assigned to them, and a dress code was given to them. It sounded as if money no …
It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. – Marcus Aurelius We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking those ideas to ourselves away to somebody else, to something …
Ray Bradbury wrote one of the best masterpieces called Fahrenheit 451, which also could be classified as a daytime horror. It’s one of the genres of books that includes The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, A Brave New World, The Long Walk, and a short story called The …
By The Way… Essays And Atavisms I recently found myself lost a book I recently received called ‘By The Way… Essays And Atavisms’ by Dereck Sale. Not lost in the sense of bewilderment, but as in ‘immersed’. My fascination was twofold; first was the realization that …
The Lottery was a short story written by Shirley Jackson some years ago. It shows what happens when people don’t question the traditions they do and when it descends into a superstitious and meaningless ritual. After her story was published, many of the subscriptions to the …
