“They will pull out a knife, stab you. They will shoot you. These little boys, it’s unbelievable what kind of weapons they’ve got now.” An ex-gang member on the culture ...
They went out mixed, but as the cons distributed into the yard they broke into their component parts. White boys congregated by the weight pile, blacks by the half-court basketball ...
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A film still from Lord of the Flies (1963)
Gangs. It’s a great theme. Hasn’t everyone been in a gang at some point? We obsess about gangs as kids—starting them, desperate to ...
Who says London has a monopoly on mindless violence? A kebab-shop brawl in a small University town has tragic and ironic consequences in Yorgos Trillidis’s cautionary tale. Saturday night’s all ...
Man Said
Helen Silverstein
Man said, girl done got herself knocked up.
Woman said, Ima help her mama kill the man done this.
Man said, could see this one comin’ mile way. Girl actin’ ...
This scurvy crew aren’t your average pirates: they stand in line at the dry-cleaners for a start. But when they come ashore in a small coastal town and start leading ...
Derrick is guilty, all right, guilty as hell – and that’s why they locked him up for murder. But Derrick’s love for the mother of his child won’t let him ...
Out of darkness, a flash and then the retort. The twenty-foot high images behind me loom incoherently – I can’t hear them, what they saying? My ears ring ...
Why wasn’t the hand in the cloud enough to stop the car from diving into the canal? Perhaps it just wasn’t seen; people are in such a rush these days. ...
Melissa Katsoulis’s book Telling Tales explores literary hoaxes from before Christ to the modern day, taking in such celebrated fakers and fakes as Thomas Chatterton, Ern Malley, the Hitler Diaries ...
