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Zury Cordova is a first-year student at the Macaulay Honors College at The City College of New York, pursuing a bachelor's degree in communications, and a minor in creative writing. She is passionate about creative expression and spends her free time journaling, writing, and painting. Her favorite authors include Sylvia Plath, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, and Sandra Cisneros.
by Mara Grayson
I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T have touched the oil paint. I know I wasn't supposed to. Please understand that my transgression was not an attempt at defiance or destruction. I never wanted to harm the painting, but at thirteen years old, my understanding of some things was not as clear as it is now. I wanted to touch Frida's hands, but because her hands weren't in the painting, I touched Diego's nose instead.
by Mark Jay Mirsky
THERE IS NO independent force of evil in the Hebrew Bible or the Thousand Nights and One scholars have pointed out. A djinn or genie taking on the identity of a court appointed tempter, the Satan of The Book of Job, may be an emissary of ill report, the spy of the Oriental court, a Shaytan, sworn to the harm of man. Or he or she can simply be a creature of another realm. There are no witch-hunts, no searches for warlocks in the Arab or the Jewish world. Even the intercourse of men and women with djinns has its laws.
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by Jennifer Sabin
I WORKED IN newsrooms for twenty years. … Everyone I worked with was fairly desensitized to the day in and day out of human misery, until 9/11, when the news became personal for every American journalist, particularly those working in New York. I wasn’t in the newsroom that day – I was awaiting the arrival of my second child who was due September 11th. For the first time in years, I experienced a huge story – the biggest story of my life – from the disquieting distance of my home, and later a maternity ward.