Where does your mind go when you watch a long boring film?

A scene from the Free Palestine march at Harrisburg.

Our country sends tax money in the billions to another country that is systematically murdering a group of people who are forced to suffer in a open-air prison. All routes are cut off by one of USA’s ally and this group is labelled as terrorists the moment they are born.

This is a short fantasy story inspired by a twitter prompt. It explores the magical adventures of Madria, Quitae, Castillae, and Tsubaki.

Even as two storytellers work together to bring this Polish translated tale to an English reading audience, we still get a typical fantasy story.

Chain Male part 2 is poem by Greg T. Miraglia. An alternate version was posted on Instagram.

This is where I’m at. I will get out the next On Page 42, but for now this is what I have for my few readers.

This clash between affirming dialogue and contrasting repetition illustrates the struggle in not only seeing other perspectives, but accepting them as well. “Glue” is a good example of the intentionality Richard Siken employs in his craft.

For nonfiction, I think its easy to either be distant with information or be intimate with mindfulness.

The more I thought about it, this fictional world and the real world have a lot in common. Both dealing with the emergence of a new form of life that threatens our own and a global society living in the shadow of the next outbreak (catastrophe) or the next strain (species).

Matt Hart’s Radiant Action is a collection on poetic segments or untitled poems. They often have creative unexpected descriptions like “fat earthquake” and “blast-site-sunlight-day,” which in some way are usually conveying a raw emotion.

A response to Harper’s Magazines “Letter on Justice and Open Debate.” It posits that their premise is flawed without mentioning the desire for ‘accountability.‘

This Week’s On Page 42 examines Ron Currie Jr.’s God Is Dead. This group of linked vignettes explores the human condition through the surreal worldwide acceptance of god’s death. On this text’s 42nd, we find an impressive use of setting and tone.

Tibor Fischer’s The Collector Collector creatively explores how to write within the point of view of an inanimate object. It’s 42nd page teaches us how to explore emotion with with such a point of view.

This entry explores Brave New World to find out what secrets are hidden in the files of it’s page 42.

A break from On Page 42 to mourn.

Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred offers us a look into fear and courage as we dive into the 42nd page of this Scifi classic.

The third book On Page 42 will be Herman Melville’s Moby Dick or The Whale. This week we are exploring a classic of literature to find out what it says on its 42nd page.

This week On Page 42, we look at Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath. How can nonfiction help us write fiction? Is communication as flawless as media convinces us it is?

On Page 42 analyzes the 42nd page on certain books. The source book will be parenthesized at the top of the article. Our first book is Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. Take a journey with me down the 42nd ave. of literature.