By Nick Gebo Okay, fine. I admit it. When I need a little extra money, I sometimes — and I swear I don’t do this often — will make GoFundMe campaigns asking people for money to treat medical conditions I don’t actually have. Now before you say anything, people don’t...
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By Deniz Orbay “Oh my god, Student. This… this grade! It’s brilliant!” says the Professor-man, mouth agape, ogling my Exam result. “I’ve… I’ve never seen anything like it!” “Oh, it’s nothing,” I say humbly, my blue orbs peering toward the ground out of fake respect to the Professor-man. “You teach...
By Danielle Bernstein I care about the environment. I swear I do! I sometimes recycle and I constantly badger my mom about how all her makeup products were tested on animals. Whenever I see someone litter, I’m sure to give them a really dirty look. I mean, I don’t pick...
By Jeff Malarky I paid $566,996 to Uncle Sam last year in federal income taxes. I threw in another $95,968 to the dear old governor of New Jersey, $47,438 to my accountant based in Grand Cayman, and $10,000 to my favorite charity, RIM (Raise Income Minimums, which seeks to prevent...
By Sophie Stachurski A few hundred years ago, a white man took pen to paper and wrote a very prolific novel that would grace the syllabi of New England boarding school English classes long after his untimely death of pneumonia. A few years ago, some guy logged onto the internet...