![Medea on Prozac](https://i1.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-3-1.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
Dyna Kassir’s essay is a collection of speculative thoughts, diverse and scattered but many times blended and regrouped, inspired by the 2008 movie “Slumdog Millionaires” directed by Danny Boyle.
![Jack’s a Martian](https://i0.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-1.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current…
![Surviving in Michoacán](https://i1.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-2-1.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
“Four men got out of the van,” Carmen told Detective Ruiz who looked like he spent more time across the street at the Gorditas Doña…
![The Ears Have It](https://i2.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-3.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
At some point, I began noticing people’s ears. One man wore tiny, square, rimless reading glasses. His long brown hair was tied in a bun,…
![The Hawk](https://i0.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-1-1.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
Jeff Mason hung up the store phone, pleased. He’d convinced a brokerage firm downtown to hold a Hawaiian Nights event; every employee at the brokerage…
![Crooked Aesthetics](https://i1.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-5-1.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
It is 2012. My youth group in church does not invite me to a party because they think I am too weird, and that my…
![Someday](https://i0.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-4.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
It’s 5 AM. Somewhere in the climax of your dream you had an anxiety attack. So you wake up – exhausted from sleep apnea, acidity…
![The snow falls forever](https://i2.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-1-2.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
Woken again in the fifth hour to darkness, and memories of a shattered voice who cannot leave his lover, and from the pretty recent past…
![serendipitous](https://i2.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-5.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
a timeworn legend, this is regarding an avowal of destiny and karma, or call it, kismet and fate that assure nothing but, a soul mate…
![Madonna of the blue sky](https://i2.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-2.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
long finger-nails cream hands and a smile that drives you to hell and beyond, there’s a boy out there who calls me Madonna we’re back…
![Body Oriented](https://i2.wp.com/128.199.98.165/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Untitled-1-3.jpg?resize=470%2C140)
Reassurance rests on the tendon joining humerus to ulna and brother radius, a plain broad enough to set up cup and saucer in the correct…