Skyler Saunders
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Sailing into a Dream: My Encounters with the Poem, ‘Wynken, Blynken, and Nod’
With leaden eyes, and thoughts slowly ebbing towards the future, the children’s poem, “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” by Eugene Field (1850-1895) always gently rocked my dreary mind at bedtime, like a “wee one’s trundle-bed.”
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Poets
Up from the Depths
The passageways of the Wilmington, Delaware sewer system smelled of decaying plants. With glints of light covered by translucent plastic throughout the place where the insects could not squeeze through, Maury Kindred, 28, ran as fast as he could. Above ground, the incessant hum of the cicadas had multiplied and the insects covered every piece of land. Humans did not have to worry about being bitten or stung, but they avoided being suffocated by retreating underground into the sewers. The Delawareans had survived for fifty years as the cicadas overtook rural areas, suburbs, and the city.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Fiction
How Did Police Catch the Baseline Killer?
In 2005-2006, long before Arizonans rooted for the Suns to keep their 2021 NBA playoff hopes alive, a monster terrorized the streets of Phoenix. the “Baseline Killer,” named after a section in nearby Tempe called Baseline Road, Mark Goudeau terrorized young women and a man sending nine people to their graves (eight women, one man) and raping and robbing women and stores, respectively.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Theoracism: It Starts. Top Story - June 2021.
The young man rejoiced. He had passed the test. Though the material he had spent long hours studying differed significantly from the material on the test, he’d still managed to earn an A+ with extra credit points beside. A thick green 110% had appeared on his tablet screen, and he’d had to curb his excitement to keep from leaping out of his seat and cheering like a sports fan in an arena.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Fiction
