PreTeena November 10-16, 2014
By Allison Barrows
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Armistice Day
By David Walls-Kaufman
"Please. Tyler. This just isn’t productive. We’re never going to admit to committing genocide. And no war crimes. That’s ridiculous." "That’s what Stalin said, after WWII. Did you know that? He insisted that there be no definition of genocide that included ideological genocide. Just like you now!" "How does that pertain to us today?" "Because […]
Woody
By Audie Cockings
Woody couldn’t sleep. "Damn eye drops," he thought. The clinic nurse said the eye drops would help his glaucoma but that beta blockers sometimes have noticeable side effects–like sleep apnea. Woody remembered putting the eye drops back in the fridge after his Hungry Man dinner, but didn’t actually recall administering them. Woody’s a retired Marine. […]
Kiwi Watch
By Terry Shanholtzer
20 February 1943 Journal entry: The sound of agitated parrots screeching from the jungle below startles me to a wide-eyed awakening. The morning sun is just above the horizon. I pause for a moment to get re-oriented to the surroundings that have been home for the last six months. Living on top of a mountain […]
Armistice Day
By David Walls-Kaufman
Thirty-eight year old Col. Tyler Stowell surveyed the dry grass of the springtime Kansas plain in his 50X field glasses. The plain stretched forever but for clumps of still-barren trees visible now and then in the long distance. He could see the tan Fascist tanks and troop trucks two miles away sheltered among the unfinished […]
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
By David Churchill Barrow
Clack-CLACK, Clack-CLACK… The corporal lifted the bolt of his rifle, pulled it back, then pushed it forward and down again, ejecting the empty casing and putting another round in the chamber. This is too easy… he thought, as he scanned the top of the trench works about twenty five yards away for another German helmet […]
Twilight Culture
By Liberty Island Staff
VII. The Shelter (Season 3 / Episode 3) Ok, so the lesson of this one is short and sweet. So sweet I’ve linked the entire episode below (it was still up as of May 2014). The simple story – one person on the block, the neighborhood doctor, is ridiculed for building a bomb shelter for […]
Twilight Culture
By Vishnu Lorax
VI. The Obsolete Man (Season 2 / Episode 24) This month – a slight diversion. This blog was formed to illustrate elements of right-wing (individualism, small-government, creativity, risk and reward) thought in an otherwise left-wing environment (Ithaca NY in the 1960s and 70s, where The Twilight Zone was conceived). The implications of the sliding scale, […]
Twilight Culture
By Marina Fontaine
V. The Rip van Winkle Caper (Season 2 / Episode 24) A short interlude for a short month – toward the end of season 2, there is an episode called The Rip van Winkle Caper. It’s not one of the gilded episodes, but the twist is quite unexpected. Forgiving its flaws (it opens with a […]
Twilight Culture
By Dan Melson
III. The Lateness of the Hour (Season 2 / Episode 8) Season 2, Episode 8 is entitled The Lateness of the Hour, and I find, as in many of The Twilight Zone episodes, that this choice of phrase bears a double meaning. Now, The Lateness of the Hour is far from TZ’s best efforts…its predictable […]
