In American culture, there is an image of the tortured artist who abuses alcohol or drugs. Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock and Kurt Cobain are a few examples. Several of the writers we have read so far, including Baldwin, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Carver had serious problems wit...

Morpheus planted a special purple flower called the lotus. Soon the people of the land smelled the sweet flowers and ate them. They immediately feel into a deep and troubled sleep. From that day on, they awoke only long enough to gather the lotus flowers and sleep again. Eventually they lost their s...

In a house sits a man with no mind. Heart beating, lungs wheezing, mouth agape, and eyes wide open. He is not someone who has a condition; his condition is something chooses, something that is the result of a hallucinogen. Compared to the 60 s and 70 s today's society is able to get stronger...