John Repp is a poet, fiction writer, folk photographer, and digital collagist living in Erie, Pennsylvania. Seven Kitchens ...

“Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and ...

The deregulation of air travel and other sectors of the economy in the 1970s was (and continues to be), in my view, a ...

Everyone lives in some kind of common sense reality. We live in a world of discrimination, order, hierarchies, competence etc ...

In one of its scenes, young women in long, white nightgowns holding lanterns, from behind a scrim walked out of that holler ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“Seek mercy for eggs we scrambled in a youth/spent banging pots and pans together./For the telling of clumsy lies, our voices/cracking like pecans together.” Sans God, what grief can we stand together ...

Joseph Hunter is a fiction writer and poet based in Manchester in the United Kingdom. His writing has appeared with Fairlight ...

Jonathan Church is a contributing editor at Merion West. He is a government economist with a background in energy economics and inflation measurement. In addition to authoring several essays, he has ...

Cryopreservation is a specific method of biostasis using very cold temperatures, and cryonics is the controversial application of cryopreservation techniques to entire human bodies, with the goal of ...