FAQs Flight Leader So, yesterday I am on the phone with a group of students from Mary Washington College who are asking me questions about writing, an interview for a new magazine they are starting called Pendulum, and there is trouble with the connection they are trying to use, they are trying to use Skype [...]

Blue Angels

Instructions for Dealing with the Beast

-white- -metal table; reflection, light fixtures on stands, metal poles; indistinct edges, corners, sides, table wheeled closer, touches bed, hugs blanket, leg tenses away- -white towel tray; silver scalpel, clamps, saw, needles, gauze; new metal for glinting light- -green sleeves dripping onto bed, brush arm; blue gloved hands check pulse, move tools, direct light to [...]

Red

I find that when I get angry, I need things to be in their places. Does that make sense? For instance, if my favorite show has been cancelled, I’ll curse some and maybe I’ll throw the remote across the room or something. Then I’ll notice that there happens to be this can of soda sitting [...]

First off, keep in mind that you were not expecting this.  (No one ever does.)  So you think on your toes, you improvise, you dance; but keep these things in mind. The thing is not an animal or we would call it an animal (or: it is an animal in the way that we are [...]

Déjà vu… Again Biography: Leighton Scott is a senior English major at the University of Mary Washington. She was born and raised in Tracy, California. It’s a very small town that takes only about ten minutes to drive through, and on any given day, when running errands, Leighton will inevitably run into someone she knows. [...]

It is a hot, muggy, August afternoon in Virginia, but I’m not concerned with the weather. I am in the middle of a beautiful, blue lake crashing through the wake of boaters on a 1988 Yamaha Waverunner. It’s nothing fancy, the red stickers on the side have faded to orange, and my top cruising speed [...]