The idea started with the most exclusive meal in the world. A little two-ounce songbird, called the Ortolan. A meal that people were willing to pay thousands of dollars for, to go to jail for, supposedly even risk going to hell for. A bird ceremoniously blinded and...
My name is Jonathan but I typically go by Jay. I was born in Honolulu Hawaii but I have lived in the pacific northwest for most of my life. I love the outdoors and you’ll find me fly fishing, climbing or hiking most weekends. Part of the inspiration for my story came...
Hannah Leshaw is an award-winning writer and filmmaker from the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Her work focuses on the nature of emotional intimacy in familial, romantic and platonic relationships, exploring both the ways we experience that intimacy and the...
As a child, I was obsessed with movies, the weirder the better. Each week I’d ravenously scour the TV guide to see what was on the menu. I became a master of the quiet sneak, creeping downstairs at two or four AM to catch classics like The Green Slime and Curse of the...
I did not begin writing when I was young (though I did win a $50 savings bond in the 9th grade for writing an essay on patriotism—go ‘Merica!), and it wasn’t until I tore my Achilles tendon in 2001 that I even dared to try writing. But I always watched movies—loved...
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