What if your political adversary holds views remarkably like your own? What if your conflict is just a sit com-style misunderstanding?
What would Metallica sound like if lead guitarist Kirk Hammet ditched the axe for Chinese zither?
What if you will never be happy until you are living next to a stream?
What if Shakespeare were two people operating like a wrestling tag team? What if, when one writer became fatigued of crafting “Hamlet” or “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” he slapped the hand of his fellow bard, who then stepped into the literary ring?
What if there are secret documents and icons buried beneath the Smithsonian that prove the earth has played host to giants and faeries?
What if you were put in a witness protection program and sent to a small Scottish village? What if, to blend in, you were required to master a heavy Scottish brogue?
What if your marriage is actually a situation-ship?
What if history books were actually novels in the magical realism genre?
When will that styrofoam coffee cup you got at the donut shop biodegrade?
When will you throw it all aside to become fishers of men?
What if the stars are a dot-to-dot puzzle just waiting to be solved?
Where is the line between quantum physics and magic?
Why did death pose as stardust for the poor “Radium Girls,” who painted watch dials in the 1920s and 1930s and fell prey to Uranium poisoning.
If you take off your mask, what lies beneath?
When it comes to emotional trauma, is it possible to “kiss it and make it all better”?
What if your house cat finds you boring and tiresome?
Is it better to die in your sleep or on a surfboard?
–Sarah Torribio
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