Araceli Elizabeth Perez – Bittersweet Abattoir

“In twenty years, the word, “trump” will have evolved into a verb that means, “to ruin something beyond repair.” The World War Two generation often used its synonym: SNAFU.”

–Araceli Elizabeth Perez, Winner of two consecutive Phineas Gage Awards for political writing. Letters to the Editor: Soundtrack for today’s entry: Listen Dear Sirs: When I wrote about the meat packing industry, I didn’t realize how viscerally people would react to runaway disease in a meat packing plant. Instead of emphasizing that people’s Spam contained dissolvedContinue reading ““In twenty years, the word, “trump” will have evolved into a verb that means, “to ruin something beyond repair.” The World War Two generation often used its synonym: SNAFU.””

Letters to the Editor II

“I sometimes wonder about how many papers Trump copied off of other kids at school, how many tests he cheated on, how many big kids he kissed up to, how many smaller kids he bullied. Other times, the answer is clear: all of them. Araceli Elizabeth Perez, Winner of 2 consecutive Phineas Gage awards forContinue reading “**Letters to the Editor II**”