How to Go Nowhere
"It is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."- Macbeth “No hugging, no learning.” Through its 9 year run...
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Lucas Dunst
- Mar 17
Snow White and the Red Shoes: Different Visions of Punishment and the Restoration of Good
There is a powerful connection to be drawn between Hans Christian Anderson’s story The Red Shoes, and the Grimm Brothers retelling of...
Teddy Masters
- Feb 15
The Situation Room
Up on the Situation room, GENERAL GEORGESON and GENERAL MADDISON are sitting around the conference table, looking at telemetry data....
Isaac Sage
- Sep 7, 2021
In Netflix's "Scissor Seven," Slacker Comedy meets Shōnen Action
Between American children's series still enjoyable for adults (She-Ra, The Dragon Prince,) and more hard-edged, adult-oriented imports...
Gray Knox
- May 24, 2021
The Leprous House
FOR AUTHORIZED EYES ONLY: CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET OPERATION LEPROUS HOUSE: Department of Defense, PARACOM Division YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO...
Bella Stevens
- Feb 19, 2021
Lucas Dunst
- Jan 21, 2021
The Loneliest Man in the Universe
A blue man stands “on a balcony of pink sand hardened to glass” (Moore 136). That balcony is part of an unimaginably enormous and...
Isaac Sage
- Dec 10, 2020
The Mandalorian's New Villain
The following article contains spoilers for Seasons 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian. When The Mandalorian released last year, it felt like a...
Lucas Dunst
- Nov 14, 2020
Just Look Up
Have you ever noticed that human beings are naturally wired to look just about everywhere but up? I don’t know if this is a feature...
Sam Hafetz
- Aug 30, 2020
Aphorisms for The Upper East Side Elite: A Review of Metropolitan
An aphorism is a pithy observation that contains a general truth( That definition is copy and pasted from Merriam Webster.). I’m sure...
Isaac Sage
- Aug 8, 2020
Review: In "She Dies Tomorrow", fear of death spreads like a plague
She Dies Tomorrow, written and directed by Amy Seimetz, begins as a kind of one-woman show. Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil,) alone in her new house,...
Grant Holt
- Aug 8, 2020
The Sinking of the Kokovoko
Loss of HMS Victory, Peter Monamy, 18th Century On the night of January sixth, the cargo ship Kokovoko left port under the steadfast...
Isaac Sage
- Jul 31, 2020
Review: "Palm Springs," a time loop romance with humor and pathos
Ever since Groundhog Day’s release in 1993, the concept of a time loop (a character reliving the same day over and over,) has made its...
Grant Holt
- Jul 24, 2020
The Brothers Mannequin
In the first week of May 2019, two individuals were arrested, kidnapped, and dismembered before being dropped in a dumpster. They were...
Isaac Sage
- Jul 24, 2020
Review: “Relic” weaves a dark family fable
“It’s not her anymore.” Most people who have had a family member or loved one suffer from dementia have heard or stated some version of...
Persy M. Immon
- Jul 5, 2020
Letters from the Editors // Spring 2020
The following editors notes were included in the Spring 2020 Edition of Persimmons. They have been reposted here for your enjoyment....