Photo: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Study for the Annunciation, ca. 1898, oil on wood, 8 1⁄2 x 10 3⁄4 in. (21.5 x 27.4 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins, 1983.95.187 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/study-annunciation-23684 #21.03 god luvs mob violence shrinking inwards: if my body is this slick curvature,
The Gospel of John describes Mary Magdalene as the first person to see Jesus Christ after his Resurrection. According to John, Magdalene afterwards said to Christ’s disciples, “I have seen the Lord”. Through modern scholarship, it has become apparent that her characterization has been subject to many changes from the
The room wasn’t too big. It was large enough to fit all of her furniture, but certainly not big enough to feel lonely. In one corner of the room was a statue of a tiger standing on two legs clenching a little girl between its claws. She was clothed in
October 18 There is something missing. The rice paddies roll past, each one as vacant as the last, each one a framed portrait of my train car. Cars sulk. Houses loom. Shops flicker. Not yet as signs of abandonment, but silently, as if no one was inside. The only company
It’s 1938. Folks are driving home when they decide to turn on their radios. It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s the night just before Halloween. They hear what sounds like a typical broadcast. However, over the course of this broadcast, hearts across the nation will pound as unsuspecting listeners tune into a story about a worldwide invasion stemming from the planet Mars.
