PreTeena: February 12-18, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected]
New Fiction: To Live Afresh
An undergraduate’s passion for literature… and the new Teaching Assistant…
By Tom Cosentino
As Declan Rosetti started his senior year at Francis Lewis University, named for New York’s forgettable delegate that signed the Declaration of Independence, as an English Literature and Creative Writing major, he was filled with thoughts of what to do after graduation. The detractors of the school called it F’ing Lame University or just FLU like the malady that struck so many during the long Upstate winters. He wondered if he had the guts to head down to New York City and live the life of a poor writer. He fantasized about getting an apartment in Greenwich Village and writing for Saturday Night Live. Or should he go to graduate school, which was the more practical decision? Those were questions for later; for now it was the start of the school year that always felt full of promise.
‘Effective Propaganda Is Infused With Satire. This Is So Serious.’
The Individual Vs. The State in New England
By Howard Foster
Check out this excerpt from Howard Foster’s witty satire Miranda’s War: A Novel of the Up-Zone.
9 Authors With Books That Can Transform Your Life
Part 9 of the Andrew Klavan Symposium
By David M. Swindle
Who are the authors and books who most inspire you today? Which writers and titles are akin to weapons in your armory? Whose ideas and storytelling techniques do you adapt into your own?
PreTeena: February 5-11, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected]
Southern Fried Cthulhu
From the LI Archives, a story first published December 30, 2013
By Steve Poling
Pea gravel crunching under tires roused Orrin Jennings. He looked out the window and saw a black SUV pull up and a man get out of the Land Rover. He walked with quick measured steps with his back straight and his shoulders thrown back as he climbed the steel steps two at a time. Orrin put a bookmark where he’d been reading his Bible, Job chapter 41. Then he adjusted his leather jacket and wiped dust from his cowboy boots before getting up. He answered at the second knock.
“You must be Sir Cedric Harrison,” Orrin said, opening the door. “C’mon in.”
“Thank you. Please call me Cedric.” Sir Cedric wore a bespoke suit from either Savile Row or Hong Kong. It didn’t matter which. The effect was the same.
Justice, Inc.: A Global Freedom Manifesto for Libertarian Hawks
Behind J.P. Medved’s exhilarating new sci-fi thriller novel lies an exciting set of ideas
By David M. Swindle
If “politics is downstream from culture,” as a wise man once said, where does one put new innovations and business breakthroughs? Could technology and entrepreneurship be more important and influential than both culture and politics?
‘Eric’s face was close enough for Fletcher to read the rage etched across it.’
J.P. Medved’s Justice Inc. will blow you away with its sci-fi action
By J.P. Medved
Former Army Ranger Eric Ikenna has co-founded a private army with his venture capitalist friend. He’ll have to fight like hell to keep it alive once it threatens the status quo of political interests who rely on brutal dictators.
Rites of Passage in Classic Literature for Boys, Part 2: Kidnapped
By David Churchill Barrow
“The round-house was like a shambles; three were dead inside, another lay in his death agony across the threshold; and there were Alan and I victorious and unhurt. He came up to me with open arms. ‘Come to my arms!’ he cried, and embraced and kissed me hard upon both cheeks. ‘David,’ said he, ‘I love you like a brother. And O, man,’ he cried in a kind of ecstasy, ‘am I no’ a bonny fighter?’ Thereupon he turned to the four enemies, passed his sword clean through each of them, and tumbled them out of doors one after the other.”
Thus ended “the siege of the round-house” onboard the brig Covenant in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, and the beginning of David Balfour’s journey from boy to man.
PreTeena: January 29 – February 4, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected]
