Part Three of ERRATICA: From the Desk of Fiore Amore, Esq. The Olympia structure, also known as the Legislature fault, is an 80km long gravitational and aeromagnetic anomaly separating the sedimentary deposits of the Tacoma Basin from the basalt of the Black Hills uplift. It is not known to be […]
Quo Vadis, Aida? – A Review
by Alden Nagel 9/10 Quo Vadis, Aida? is a piercing meditation on the nature of cultural and historical trauma as seen through the eyes of its perpetrators, the intermediary bureaucrats actively participating in the necessarily banality of evil while retaining their individuality, and the victims of such events in such […]
Moving Olympia’s Unhoused: From Deschutes, the Mitigation Site, to Ensign Road
by Miguel Louis For the last month, local city and council meetings have been defined by a series of debates between citizens and their local governments that will define the future of unhoused Olympians and residents of Thurston County. One of the primary concerns was the Mitigation Site, a small […]
The Murder of Speedy Geoduck
ERRATICA: FROM THE DESK OF FIORE AMORE, ESQ. OLYMPIA, OCTOBER 29th The Committee for Pleasant Journalism, a clandestine organization dedicated to uncovering the rot, silica, and asbestos from the hidden channels of the Evergreen State College, was prevented from screening the seminal 1983 body horror film “Videodrome” by David Cronenberg. […]
poems.
all poems featured in this post originally published in volume 50, issue 3/4
IT CAME FROM THE FRIDGE…
Part One of ERRATICA: From the Desk of Fiore Amore, Esq. The return to campus has assuredly been a turbulent time for everyone. In this foul and plague-ridden year of our lord, 2021, even that which we’re closest to remains unfamiliar. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw […]
To Our Favorite Team of Virgins…
Thank you for visiting our beautiful campus and leaving. We know that your visit wasn’t all that you hoped it would be. Word on the street was that your team of pseudo-reporters were in search of pussy, among other things. Unfortunately, the college’s administration is busy typing cliché PSAs and […]
Basic Need Insecurity Rampant Among Students at The Evergreen State College
Submitted By JC Wortham of the Evergreen Basic Needs Student Team The Evergreen State College, like many schools across the country, got hit with the brunt of the impacts of the pandemic. This exasperates a lot of issues and hardships students faced even before the pandemic. Though organizations and schools […]
Letter to the Editor: “Protect Thacker Pass”
By Paul Feather (featured image by Travis London) I never thought I’d be fighting the environmental movement, but here I am. I’m sitting at the top of Thacker Pass, NV surrounded by old-growth sagebrush. This place is in danger, and so are the antelope that greeted my arrival, the meadowlarks […]
A Union of Nobodies, Part Two
By Fiore Amore Here we stood in front of a flame-engulfed McDonald’s staring right at the inhuman face of our small-town business community. Gone was any pretense. Behold the mighty hog, a sight for the ages beyond belief. From this point forward my memory fails me. Only glimpses and fragments […]