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From College to CEO: What Makes the Difference Between a Degree and a Career?
Going to college to get a degree that will position you for a career earning a stable and comfortable income until retirement--it’s the dream of many young adults fresh out of high school looking for something to do with their lives. Unfortunately, life doesn't always pan out that way for everyone who earns a degree at a prestigious institution, as sometimes other factors can stop them from developing the full potential of their would-be career.
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Q & A with Vin Kridakorn, Leading Man Extraordinaire
Vin Kridakorn is not just another pretty face. The up and coming actor is currently performing as Jonathan Harker in “DRACULA: Blood is Life,” running February 16-March 6 in Bangkok’s Siam Pic-Ganesha Theatre. And chilling horror film “Eveless,” which Vin co-produced, is about to hit Fantasia International Film Festival (check out the spooky trailer!). But that’s not all there is to know about Vin: he’s also a panda enthusiast, foodie, and unequivocal advocate for casting diversity.
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Knocking on Heaven's DoorBy Terry Barr QuailBellMagazine.com Last year I published a story about a boy I once knew who tried to bicycle-race a train across the tracks of my hometown. 18th Street and Carolina Avenue it was in the year 1967, just months before the janitor of my church, a sweet, one-eyed Black man would be shot down by a white man only twenty yards or so from that very same train crossing.
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Five Quirky Films for a Dark Fantasy Movie Night
By Archita Mittra
@archita_mittra QuailBellMagazine.com *Author's Note: For lovers of Tim Burton and Romantic Goth and red wine.
I’m a strange person in the sense that although I do not enjoy horror movies, I’ve always been drawn to the macabre and the Gothic. Thus while I carefully avoid stuff like the Exorcist and Poe’s short stories, I can safely enjoy Tim Burton films and Poe’s hauntingly beautiful poetry like the “The Raven” and "Annabel Lee." Perhaps the phrase I’m searching for is “dark fantasy”--
something that keeps the Gothic elements, fantastical creatures and period costumes intact, and yet is tempered by a sense of fairytale optimism and contains only a minimal amount of bloodshed and gore. Fantasy that isn’t too grisly or nihilistic, but still dark and brooding. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Searching For Thrills
By Leah Mueller
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It's best not to call a guy for a date if you meet at a dive bar, especially after he bites you while you're singing karaoke. You're standing on the stage, belting out a rendition of “The Thrill is Gone.” Your eyes are shut, and you're really getting into it. Suddenly, a man leaps from the crowd and clamps his jaw around your right foot. He's young, dark-haired, cute. You scream “OUCH!” and kick him, but not very hard. Later, he gives you his phone number, invites you to call whenever you want.
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Romantic Slop: Every Piece of Candy in a Whitman's Sampler, Ranked
I can take or leave Valentine’s Day. It’s nice. It’s definitely a commercial product, as are many things I enjoy. I like google, the Precise V5 Rt ink pen, and dogs, which have been commercialized recently. But I’m not currently single, so I’ve moved to a slightly more positive state of being on Valentine’s Day. What this probably means is I’ll snuggle up to my Chromebook, video chat with my paramour, and then, alone, sit on my mattress, listen to Roy Orbison, avoid the stinging pain of duende until my lady-friend moves to Richmond, Virginia by eating myself sick on chocolate in those little heart shaped boxes to avoid reflecting on the bitter irony of how who you want the most is in the place you want the least to be in and how much the candy on a holiday so built around it sucks total ass.
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How To Be Your Own Freaking Valentine!
Valentine's day is upon us and the topic of love is ubiquitous. Even if you wanted to, you can't escape the pink hearts, gender normative clichés, and doe-eyed couples.
Or can you?! Whether or not you plan on buying someone a giant Vermont Teddy Bear (which, according to their commercials, has the power to turn women into sex maniacs), this Valentine's Day can be the most amazeballs ever. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Why Valentine's Day Is The Kinkiest Holiday Ever
If you want to start celebrating Valentine’s Day the traditional way, you will probably start calling it “Spanksgiving” because that’s basically what it was before Christian cultural appropriation happened. Valentine’s Day was once full of whips, booze, and public nudity.
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Importing Love (It's Not What You Think)
By Jody Rathgeb
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When you’re in the Turks and Caicos Islands, it can be hard to find the true local culture. Over the years the islands have borrowed from all their neighbors and influences: soca and steel drum from the Caribbean basin, boat design and Junkanoo from the Bahamas, Christmas pudding and a legal system from their English colonial past, and rap and gadgetry from their American tourists. Valentine’s Day is a particularly successful American import.
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First World Problems: Sex Trafficking in AmericaWhile America has served as a beacon of hope, freedom and a slew of other elusive euphemisms for political asylum and capitalistic wet dreams, it's also home to plenty of nightmares. Amid a glittering facade of free speech, democracy and equal opportunity for all, there lies perverted pockets of corruption and depravity that make us want to crawl into a bunker and let the whole damn world implode on itself.
But because we're not a crop of evasive ostriches who stick their heads into the sand every time something painful, frightening, or fist-making comes along, we thought we'd take this fine fine Wednesday and discuss sex trafficking in the United States. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
I Didn't Ask For Your Opinion On My Psych Meds
"I can assure you — as the person actually in this body — that my life after meds is the only life I’ve ever had that’s been worth living."
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An Echo from the Stars
By Raymond Greiner
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Preparing for winter. It is mid-October and the trees are spectacular. I anticipated autumn to be less colorful. We had such a dry summer; driest of the ten summers I have lived at this place. The pond is very low; we desperately need rain. Early summer rains yielded this radiant scene.
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Everything Zen: More than a Massage
By Andi Chrisman
QuailBellMagazine.com *Editor's Note: First appeared on Andi's website as well as On the Grid Zine.
Today I had an absolutely amazing experience that completely changed the way I felt physically, emotionally, and spiritually afterward: I got a thirty minute massage.
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What Sylvia Plath Taught Me (That Has Nothing To Do With The Art of Suicide)For a lot of English majors, Sylvia Plath is the ultimate rockstar. With her poetic genius, glamorous looks, celebrated marriage to Ted Hughes and her tragic death of carbon monoxide poisoning, she can make Kurt Cobain seem a bit too passé. If Holden Caulfield is the epitome of teen angst, then Esther Greenwood from her roman a clef novel, The Bell Jar is his female counterpart, except she’s saucier, and more delightfully whimsical and optimistic . Unfortunately her literary brilliance is often overshadowed by the controversies shrouding her suicide and more often than not, she’s associated with adolescent anxiety and morbid poetry and identified with incredibly talented but incredibly frustrated writers. For some she represents the extreme dark side of the creative life. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Why You Must Go To Dee's Fight Against Heroin Show
What can you do to combat the heroin epidemic that is plaguing Long Island? Rock on down to Dee's Fight Against Heroin birthday benefit show on February 5 at Shaker’s Pub in Oakdale, New York! All of the money generated by the show goes to Michael’s HOPE. Michael’s HOPE (Heroin & Opiate Prevention Education) is “a non-profit organization focused on holding community events and assemblies in high/middle schools to raise awareness on the current heroin epidemic.” Party for a good cause with local favorite bands like Enemy Of The State, I Dreamt the Sea, Reign of Terror, Jungle Gypsy, Ziana, and Felix. Enjoy great music while spreading awareness about heroin addiction!
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Empress of Ants
At eight, I was an empress; dominating civilization isn’t hard when your subjects are ants.
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"Interstellar" is Truly Out of This World
by Christopher Cruz
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I’m game for anything McConauhottie, amirite? As soon as I saw the previews for Interstellar, I tried to eschew anything that might hint at how good or bad the movie would be. Sometimes, people play movies up so much that my expectations end up too high when I actually watch them. But I finally saw Interstellar. Here are a couple things that I took away from the film.
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