Mortar Prayers
“Nobody pays attention to my bad dream, my outburst. Everybody’s tending their own crop of horrors.” A short work of fiction that acts a reminder of…
Frederick Foote
Best of Across The Margin 2019, Nonfiction
As 2019 comes to its close, Across the Margin takes a look back at some of its most treasured moments in Nonfiction… Throughout this final…
Running Out Of Time
A lethal goddess, a savage beast, and a band of unsuspecting passerby converge, to chilling results… by: Frederick Foote I grew up in the South, in…
Weight
“My, my, you were starting some mess up in there.” An offering of flash fiction featuring a precocious, socially conscious child who bravely challenges the…
A Reparations Primer
A reparations primer, one that aims to plainly lay out why reparations to African American descendants of those enslaved in the past are necessary, and what,…
The Myth of American Unity
An examination of the role myth plays in shaping the way in which America views itself… by: Frederick Foote The United States appears to be…
A Modest Proposal
Something HAS to be done, but what? A modest, pragmatic proposal for gun control. by: Frederick Foote The position is inarguable, guns are a public…
A Visitation
by: Frederick Foote When the past comes back to stalk the present — a short story about a veteran confronted by the horrors of his…
The Wolves Of San Francisco
by: Fredrick Foote1 A work of speculative fiction that imagines a nation where homelessness has grown to encompass a third of its residents, and where…
Dead Again
by Frederick Foote A work of science fiction that imagines a vicious loop of life and death for a soldier, with no end in sight… September…
Yale
by: Frederick Foote 1 “He has to find his own way out — has to find his own way in the world. I almost regret I…
Four Speeches
by: Frederick Foote A work of fiction that acts as a warning, urging one to be mindful of just how easily the United States could…