At the end of this piece, he contemplates portrayals of power and evil for his next movie review The reason The Hunched Cornish won’t know I’ve re-abducted Tango Baby from…

And Batman – “The Dark Knight Rises” What is it we imagine when we try to envision evil, define it, encapsulate its essence in a few words, give it a…

Steve Kowalski writes about something he doesn’t understand I really don’t understand what the point of all this is or what I’m doing here. I don’t understand why I couldn’t…

The Half-Guinea starts in with his damn jokes I don’t know what John Smith is up to, sitting back there and placing this Kowalski character between us. It’s like he’s…

What was I supposed to do, tell The Hunched Cornish about Manny Face? John Smith, January 31, 2014 KU Secret Editorial Board responds, probing issues raised and ramifications with critical…

As talk turns to Moscow, relations with The Half Guinea go from bad to worse “Will you calm that damn dog down and get its paws off my kid!” “I…

Into a basement bar not far from the barricades of revolutionary Kyiv, now world famous for its continuing political unrest, an elfin oddity in drab and distinctly military apparel has…

The Arrival I sit in a Kansas diner, looking out a grime-streaked window. I do not know what I’m doing. I am thinking of something but I cannot say exactly…

Tries taking advantage of stage with ‘Power of Three’ presentation The odd-shaped rounded figure reckons no one’s really watching him. People mill in clusters among the protest tents, food stations…

Sweaty’s mother sweeps into town to break it up, reminding her son of loftier callings The wheelchair whirs into the grieving, traumatized post-revolutionary crowd in Kyiv’s Independence Square. It is…