Every muscle in his body tensed the second he looked up and saw the flaming red eyes and glistening white fangs staring at him through the dark moonless night. With a powerful lunge, the beast was on him sending both of them crashing to the ground. Its steamy hot breath bellowed in his face, reeking with the stench of death as they rolled on the ground. Immense pain exploded though his left shoulder when the black devil's fangs tore through his plate armor and bored deeply into his flesh. Michael prayed he could scramble to his feet and unsheathe his sword in time. A sudden downward thrust of...

Barack Obama's historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long...

It's been two days without power and I have given up hope of getting it anytime soon. Sadly food is scarce and I've had to eat two of my neighbors since I hadn't went to the grocery store; which saddens me even more because I liked them. They were such good neighbors and also good to the last bite. There are long gas lines everywhere and they are rationing now; which pissed me off when it came my turn. After all I am better than everybody else So I shot the gas station attendant and took as much gas as I wanted. Ice is as valuable as gold now and when I couldn't find any; I mugged an old...