Featured in Burningword Literary Journal

A Poem by O.G. Rose, Published in Issue 100

We are honored to have our poem Fingers featured at Burningword, published in Issue 100.

The poem can be found here.

They are in skulls, nyctinastic,
ready to flick a new Gaia
back into the light, out of three tunnels,
where the power of life and death can rest in peace
as sound.

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AN ESSAY FEATURED IN THE MAP IS INDESTRUCTIBLE BY O.G. ROSE

If truth is theoretically knowable but not practically, the black hole must be filled, and nothing will stop us from trying.

This piece was inspired by a discussion between O.G. Rose and Lorenzo Barberis Canonico called “Conspiracies: Us vs Us.” …

A NONFICTION BOOK BY O.G. ROSE

If the State stabilized, would we stabilize too?

Suffering what Charles Taylor called “cross-pressures,” “unbundling,” and “The Nova Effect” — increasingly surrounded by options of how we could live, causing us to suffer what Barry Schwartz called “the paradox of choice” — increasingly losing any sense of “quiet certainty,” unable…

Five flash pieces featured at OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters

We are honored to be featured at OPEN for their themed publication, “The Open Window.”

The piece can be found here.

In his apartment, the elder noticed the people below covering their eyes and looking up. Curious, the man reached up to open his window. It was jammed…

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A Review

This is about how a show ended: it contains spoilers.

Davood Gozli recently recorded a great review on Squid Game, which I couldn’t watch until I saw the series, so guess what happened? Yup, sleep-deprivation — Squid Game was brilliant up to the very end. Unfortunately, by that, I don’t…

A NONFICTION BOOK BY O.G. ROSE

Do the “acids of modernity” dissolve our feeling of “quiet certainty?”

In his book Evangelism, Hunter wrote:

‘The moral order [or a society] is comprised of symbolic boundaries. These act as rules and guidelines by which ordinary people make sense out of their personal lives. They also establish predictable patterns…

Point 3332 from Pensées of a Professor

Is the phrase “forbidden fruit” a misnomer?

My student told me that she regretted the language of “Forbidden Fruit,” for that suggested that “The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil” was itself forbidden and evil, when really it was biting the fruit which was the problem. Everything God created…

An Essay Featured In The Map Is Indestructible by O.G. Rose

Inspiration from Being Wrong by Kathy Schulz and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

What’s it like not to know what we’re talking about? Unfortunately, it’s often like knowing what we’re talking about. Ignorance feels like knowledge, and we, informed about this but uninformed about that, usually participate in “civil debate” unaware that…